>I have found that the polarizing sunglasses make it much harder to see our GPS device. I think this is a pretty universal problem. Everyone will handle it differently. Some turn the screen brightness all the way up if it goes up enough to help. This can shorten the life of the screen however, depending on the type of screen. Other people we know simply lift the glasses when they need a clearer look at the screen. Depending on the type of screen, tilting it differently can make a difference. In our boat the Furuno NavNet is mounted on a clever retractable mount (the original owner's idea, I suspect) that comes down out of the overhead at the helm station. This puts the display quite close to and slightly above the helmsman. So it's an easy and now automatic thing for me to look up over the top of the sunglasses at the radar/plotter screen. Our other, older CRT Echotec plotter is mounted on the electronics console in front of the helm and off to one side, so it's a bit lower than the helmsman's head. For that one I tend to lift the glasses up momentarily if I need to study the display closely. We normally run with the radar and steering information split on the Furuno display and the chart on the old green-screen Echotec. So I don't refer to the Echotec nearly as much as the Furuno above me. We also only run the boat from the lower helm station, never from the flying bridge, so there is less light and glare on the nav and radio displays and the amount of contrast our eyes are having to deal with is often not as great as one might encounter running the boat from above. ____________________ C. Marin Faure GB36-403 "La Perouse" Bellingham, Washington

But Marin, you only wear sun glasses for 4-5 days of the year up there, don't you? :) George METAFORA Sabre 36 On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:34 PM, C. Marin Faure <cmfaure@earthlink.net>wrote: > >I have found that the polarizing sunglasses make it much harder to > see our GPS > device. > > I think this is a pretty universal problem. Everyone will handle it > differently. Some turn the screen brightness all the way up if it > goes up enough to help. This can shorten the life of the screen > however, depending on the type of screen. Other people we know > simply lift the glasses when they need a clearer look at the screen. > Depending on the type of screen, tilting it differently can make a > difference. > > In our boat the Furuno NavNet is mounted on a clever retractable > mount (the original owner's idea, I suspect) that comes down out of > the overhead at the helm station. This puts the display quite close > to and slightly above the helmsman. So it's an easy and now > automatic thing for me to look up over the top of the sunglasses at > the radar/plotter screen. Our other, older CRT Echotec plotter is > mounted on the electronics console in front of the helm and off to > one side, so it's a bit lower than the helmsman's head. For that one > I tend to lift the glasses up momentarily if I need to study the > display closely. We normally run with the radar and steering > information split on the Furuno display and the chart on the old > green-screen Echotec. So I don't refer to the Echotec nearly as much > as the Furuno above me. We also only run the boat from the lower > helm station, never from the flying bridge, so there is less light > and glare on the nav and radio displays and the amount of contrast > our eyes are having to deal with is often not as great as one might > encounter running the boat from above. > > > ____________________ > C. Marin Faure > GB36-403 "La Perouse" > Bellingham, Washington > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change > email address, etc) go to: > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.