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Steiner Binoculars
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Steiner Binoculars
The latest electronic gizmos (not that ours are the latest) may be way cool but a good pair of binoculars are at least as important to safety on a voyaging sail boat.
Steiner is one of the few companies left (it seems) that is still building good quality equipment and then standing behind it. We have had the same pair of Steiner Commander RS2000 binoculars for over 20 years. They have lived in the cockpit for a good part of those years, banging and crashing around, without ever showing any signs of wear and tear except for the rubber coating, which twice now has gotten sticky and unpleasant. When that happens we just send them back to Steiner (Pioneer Research in North America) and, for a very modest charge, they are freshly coated and back to us within a few weeks—along with a free re-adjustment and overall clean-up. They may be over-size and out-of-style (sort of like me!) but they still do a great job.
Our only criticism is that we have found
the built-in bearing compass to be pretty useless, except in very smooth
water.
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Treadmaster Deck Covering
www.defender.com
We are finally nailed to the deck, thanks to Treadmaster!
Though we had the most aggressive non-skid paint we could get, we still
used to slide around whenever there was snow on the deck. It was a huge
job to template, cut out and glue down all the pieces of Treadmaster it
took to cover the deck, but it was so worth the work. (For more on Treadmaster
see Reassembly, Installing
Treadmaster and Treadmaster
Gluing Problems.)
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