"akcarlos" wrote:

I thought it was only european hikers that had half their belongings
hanging from there body's.

LOL - it is true that on land, I have to wear them along with the hat
and the cameras. In that case I'm also wearing a fanny pack.

why cant you stow the binoculars and camera ?, surely your either
sailing or looking through the binoculars or taking pictures but not
all at once. (where do you put your sunglasses?)

I wear bifocals which are automatic darkening ones, so I don't have
sunglasses per se. The glasses are secured with a cord around the
back of my head so that they don't blow off.

We normally do stow the binoculars - we hang them on the binnacle.
But my rule is - if you are using them, they are around your neck.
That way if you stumble and drop them, they just land on your chest
and not in the drink. Same with cameras.

I am MORE likely to have things around my neck if we are actively
sailing so that I can get to them, and won't drop them.

Rosalie B. wrote:

I have so many things around my neck already - cameras (at least one
and sometimes two), and binoculars, and sometimes a separate detached
hood if it is cold that when a hat blows off, I get strangled.