On Sun, 02 May 2004 08:58:13 -0700, Parallax wrote:

Yesterday (Saturday), while working on my two Stevenson Mini-Cup
boats, my glasses suddenly broke. This was not a break that could be
repaired with tape and I realized I was essentially legally blind till
Monday since I had no backup. Being absurdly optimistic and stubborn,
snip

Good read!
It reminds me of a fellow I knew back in the late 1980s. Despite very
poor vision - depth of vision was no problem but field of vision, he
could just se my complete face if I sat across a table - he designed
and built himself a small coastal cruising cat and went sailing.
The boat was far from pretty but it worked.

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