What's on your wrist while you're at the helm?

[BermudaBreeze]

Nothing.

Have to much fun sailing!

Rick

[Duane Dunn, Allegro]

Sometimes the Seiko, but usually what I feel is one of the best watches out there, and not massively overpriced like many.

Luminox

What sets this watch apart is it's ilumination.

The tritium gas capsules give off a continuous glow for 20+ years. They never fade during the night like every other luminous paint watch I have. None of them will last through the night. Won't kill your battery like a Timex indeglow either.

Just a great watch, accurate, waterproof, and always readable. I've had one of the older Navy Seal dive versions I got at west marine about 10 years ago that's still going strong but needs a new band. A year or so ago I found Big 5 sports closing out some Smith and Wesson OEM Luminox's and picked up one for $59. A great deal. It's a clone of the Stealth F-117 series, a 3401 with black on stainless steel and a rubber band. Looks like this except has the Smith and Wesson logo on the face. The only think I don't like is it's not quite dressy enough for some occasions.



Next time I have a few spare bucks I want to get one of the Stainless versions and it will probably be the last watch I buy and will wear all the time.

[mtc]

I wear nothing on my wrist! The whole point of sailing for me is getting away from the things of man.

For some of us, I suppose. Depending on the technology one has on their boats. Guess you're sailing a papyrus boat?

It was believed to be first used about 4000 B.C. These boats were made of bundles of bound papyrus reeds, and were lashed together into a long thin hull form in the style of a slight crescent. This lifted the ends out of the water. The bundle was made as wide as possible for stability.



Guess my fascination comes from being involved with precision metal as a tool and die maker. I love the intricate movements, machining, and accuracy. It's not knowing the time I care about, my watches don't even have numbers on them, it's having this 'living' perpetual mechanical 'thing' on my wrist.

I like the handcuff idea too, but for entirely different reasons.

Michael

[Idle Time]

no watch....retired.....dont keep to schedules anymore....

[LOUIS B HOLUB]

no watch....retired.....dont keep to schedules anymore....

Me too...

[Scott]

Hair

[ssichler]

Anyone have a ship's clock? Handy for keeping a DR plot if you dont wear a watch or want to depend on chartplotter. I was thinking I might add one to my M.

[Dan B]

No watch. Just one of those civilized things I leave behind. If I need the time someone else always has one available, or I check the GPS.

[kmclemore]

No watch. My cell phone always has the correct time, and I don't even have to reset it when crossing time zones.

Ditto.

[Moe]

No watch here, either.

[Night Sailor]

that takes a licking and keeps on ticking... or humming as the case is today.... Timex, Expedition model, good to 100 meters. Good light, chrono, timer, three alarms, all for $40.

[Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL]

When I cruise, I live on Island Time.
It gets dark - I go to bed.
It gets light - I get up.

[Scott]

We have a hard fast rule while sailing. Similar to Bill, No schedules. Just go sailing.

I find that when we set expectations of time we are bound to miss them. Better not to have them.

Ok, on edit, the schedule is like this,

Fri Eve, "Go sailing sometime this weekend"

Mon Morn," Be done sailing in case I have to work"

Double edit:

Sun morn "Go to church"

Sloop rule 1: "If your on the water its OK to miss church"

[parrothead]

I wear a Garmin Forerunner - a great little rechargable wrist GPS that I had originally purchased when we were doing some distance walking. It displays time of day, but I have that set in a small font -- the primary display being speed in mph. It's great for providing instant feedback on trim adjustment - no matter where I am on the boat. It also displays distance travelled, average speed [pace], top speed, etc. - and draws a little map of our route.

On the upper Chesapeake we're never out of sight of land, but when power boating on Biscayne Bay I've used the Forerunner's trail mapping feature to find my way back to our launch site from too far out for visual identification.

[BK]

The Omega Seamaster (007 watch) date is too small to read.
The bubble date on the Rolex Submariner gets scratched too easy and needs replacement. Rolex says their watch should be sent in for maintenance every year at $200 a pop.
Both have heavy metal bands that are never the right fit because of the wrist size is always changing during the day. They both do not fit under a shirt cuff very well.
The real $1000 watch is a Casio Data Bank. I never take it off even swimming or showering (every Sunday.) It has 24 time zones, memory for 50 phone numbers or bank accounts, all kinds of different modes and a calculator. The best thing it's thin and weighs nothing and feels like a watch is not there.