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Apr 19, 2007, 8:32 AM
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Re: [James Reilly] Marine binoculars
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I got my husband the Nikon 14 x 32 StabilEyes for Christmas. It was a risk - not that he wouldn't like them - but a risk that with two on-water types in the family, could we handle just one pair. Sigh, we both like it way too much and its on my "Anniversay-claus" gift list.
The stabilizing is really amazing and not easy to access while ashore (life is too stable ashore). As an example, with normal binoculars doing race committee work, I often have trouble reading sail numbers at the far end of a starting line in a large fleet (say 60 ish keelboats) in any sort of lumpy conditions. (Magnification isnt the problem, its keeping a stable image).
With the Nikon 14 x 32 -at the Laser Midwinters East in Clearwater: From the starting area, in 18knots and lumpy seas in a small powerboat, I could read sail numbers of Lasers rounding Mark 2 (we had trapezoid course, so Mark 2 is the windward mark of the outer "sausage") - about 3/4 mile from the starting area!
Way cool
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