Any one use contacts sailing and what u think,thanks

No I don't use contacts when sailing. Gave up on contacts about 15 years ago. It was such a relief to just slip on a pair of glasses after stuffing around with contacts for about two years.

Every year I get one or two pairs of glasses care of our private health care and chucking in about $50 a week. So they cost about $1250 a pop.

I used to, and no problems. I never wore glasses anywhere unless my eyes were sore from contacts. I don't know how anyone sails in glasses, but I guess you get used to it.

The only difference is you have to develop the close your eyes before going under water reflex, which I figured out years ago after washing a few out.

I got laser surgery, so now I don't need to close my eyes, but there's nothing to see anyway ;-)

I used to wear contacts until I heard about a bacteria thing that can make you blind that gets stuck behind the contacts.

Now all contact boxes have warnings on to not wear in water, the parasite eats into your retina, it can come in your bath water let alone fresh and salt water. It is very rare but is it worth taking the risk. Its only because the contact traps it that it starts to bury itself, if you take them out at the end of a session and put fresh in or wash them in saline then there is no problem wearing them in water.....its only if you keep them on for a prolonged period.

I used to wear contacts all the time. I used to go out in the surf then and it didn't take long before I opened my eyes underwater and lost one .It cost me $70 ( which was a fair bit back in the 90's). After that I got disposables at least then it was only $10 a pop. As others have said you should be able to train yourself to keep your eyes shut.
I found using contacts great other than that.
Since then I had a problem with an allergy to my horse which had a side effect that stopped me using contacts.
In flat water I wear prescription sunnies.Just make sure you drill a hole in the end of the arm to tie some fishing line through which ties to a glass tie.I only attach one end of the tie to the glasses the other gets tied to my wetsuit leash. A Gath helmet also helps keep things in place. Rain X helps avoid vision problems. Good in that they are polaroid so I can see the shallows and sharks better..

Roy said...
I have been using disposable contacts for many years, probably only every lost one or two in that all that time.

The only time contacts will wash out is if you open your eyes underwater. When you fall in you generally close your eyes anyway so its not a problem.

+1 used disposable contacts for 20+ years sailing and never lost 1, mainly wavesail and it is natural to close eyes when u fall in, glasses suck as they form droplets and fog

djl070 said...
no fun sailing one eyed if your not used to it

Yep, been wearing contacts while sailing/surfing for last 6 years. When one gets knocked out it's headache vision.

Have used 2 week disposable and recently used daily disposables, the 2wk ones worked out to about $20 each pair while the daily are only about $4 pair, lot easier on the pocket when you loose something worth $4.

how much is laser surgery?