Yup, those are just about like the chums I never remember to buy. Bet they work great.
Have to say that I did lose a pair of glasses in the surf zone on a bigger day. Got maytagged (multi cycle. LOL!!) pretty well and one of neoprene croakies sleeve evidently did lose it’s grip on one of the earpieces. To be fair, I do trim the earpiece sleeves by at least 1/3 since I find them too long.
-sing
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Sunglasses & surf
Got a pair of these (prescription)
in the early oughts.
They were supposed to drain well (not so much), and hold on well (sort of).
I’d been through a number of sunglass solutions, finally ended up going w/out in surf.
I still have the habit of going in & out through the surf (or not) w/out them on, then, outside the surf, stop & put them on (as well as my ‘comfy’ shoes) to continue with my ocean paddle trip.
I think ‘Sea-Specs’ (company) is still around.
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Oh yes, Croakies & Chums work quite well … when you remember to put the darned things on. I have a pair of glasses somewhere on the bottom of Piddly on the Lower Yough. Something about getting a family raft trip going and then attempting to sidesurf the (rather sticky) hole in a Howler.
I don’t care for Chums and Croakies because they do not tighten down enough for the glasses to be held tight to the head. I prefer Cables or one of their knockoffs. They are wire with plastic sliders. I often use dental tape to tightly whip the rubber tubing to the earpieces. The two pair in the photos aren’t whipped on. When pulled all the way down the glasses are held tight to your head. I put them on all my glasses and have yet to lose a pair. I never take them off my glasses. I am nearsighted so when I want to read, I let my glasses hang from my neck at my collar bone. That way I don’t have to find where I laid them latter.
Opened all the way makes it easier to put your glasses on.
Pulled tight is how I wear them.
And store them in their case.
Went to my local lake sunday paddled 5 miles put my kayak on trailer upsde down and forgot my favorite drink bottom stuck between seat and hull got home it was gone.
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Holy Crap! Just reading these threads now. Thank goodness good fortune and forgiving snow cover were at play here. I can understand how easily a mom with having to buckle in three others could be, shall we say mentally distracted with a thousand “to do” items constantly running through the synapse RAM.
Still, whilst the following vehicle’s driver was somewhat shaken, WHAT ABOUT MOM?? I can only surmise the realization of what that thumping sound running down the roof, rear window and hood/ hatch must have been met with a reaction on this order:
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You may not believe this but the Mom grew up in a Mormon family in rural Utah, where if you lose one kid you just have another (some of my friends had 10 brothers and sisters), she was quite relaxed about the whole thing. This happened in '84 or 85, a couple of years before the Coen Brothers released their “masterpiece”.