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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 08/05/2009 :  13:52:27  Show Profile
WHIW, the Tahiti (with compass) is 1/3 off this week.
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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 08/06/2009 :  18:10:12  Show Profile
I have Fujinon 7x50 purchased years ago from West Marine. I have always found the center focus handy the compass less so. That said, I have learned more about binoculars here than I could have imagined. I like the idea of being able to focus before picking them up to the eye. Then again, what I have works just fine for my purposes.
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jbkayaker
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Response Posted - 08/08/2009 :  11:26:23  Show Profile
After spending two days as the navigator of a power boat off shore from Morehead City, NC to Southport and then to Charleston, SC without a GPS I put <b>stabilized</b> binoculars second on my wish list right after a good moving map handheld GPS. It often took a full minute of staring thru plain unstabilized binoculars to get a few seconds of sufficient stillness to read buoy IDs from a 43 foot boat mushing along at 17 mph. It would not have been much better in a sailboat.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 08/10/2009 :  07:07:22  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
We went for th echeapies thinking they would eventually be deep-sixed.

Took them out yesterday and found our binoculars had mutated inot a pair of monoculars. With one day to our vacation departure, we can't afford the time to drive into the city and cash in on the guarantee...

You can't afford the cheap stuff.
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JohnP
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Response Posted - 08/10/2009 :  10:44:33  Show Profile
Correction: My outstanding binoculars, made by Pentax, are 8x40.

Details.

Anchors aweigh, Chris!!!
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/26/2009 :  08:50:29  Show Profile
WM's Raiatea binocs (see Stu's post) are on sale this week--about 40% off.
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