Regatta Watches

[XJSJohn]

My eyesight must be getting a but iffy because I am now struffling to see the sweep on the stopwatch on my speedie which I use every weekend on race starts. So to all the yacht racing watch fans out there, what Regatta Watches do you have / do you recomend?

I know that these Suunto's are raved and rated but to me its far too complicated, all i need is a clear 5 minute count for the start, we have enough electronics onboard to do everything else ...




This is much more my style, but the "modern" versions are getting far to fussy and cluttered ...



so what ya got?

[XJSJohn]

no one got any opinion or comments on these??

[Fittster]

I've got a old Heuer Skipper (which is fairly useless for start timing).

Do quite fancy a Rolex Yachtmaster, although I actually wear a g-shock when messing about on boats.

[Matt172]

what about one of these



http://www.jonti.co.uk/html/page_022.html

or one of these




http://www.sailing-watch.com/acatalog/Match_Race.h...

[XJSJohn]

Matt172 said:

http://www.sailing-watch.com/acatalog/mr9010.gif

actually rather like the look of that ..

Not a big fan of digital but that one could work ..

[XJSJohn]

Fittster said:

Do quite fancy a Rolex Yachtmaster.

me too but a bit rich for my blood at the moment!

[ShadownINja]

Diver's watch with bezel set at 55 minutes past?

[XJSJohn]

ShadownINja said:

Diver's watch with bezel set at 55 minutes past?

needs to be to the second, from when the horn goes off.

(yes we do actually race that close, even in 40 footers ... 20 seconds late to the line has you 4 or 5 boatlengths behind the pack.)

[ShadownINja]

XJSJohn said:

Then this doesn't make sense. Parallax could have you starting too early or too late. Need to be a digital watch with a countdown timer. Casio probably do one for £15.

G-shocks tend to have countdown and alarms...

Edited by ShadownINja on Friday 21st August 08:29

[XJSJohn]

ShadownINja said:

XJSJohn said:

Then this doesn't make sense. Parallax could have you starting too early or too late. Need to be a digital watch with a countdown timer. Casio probably do one for £15.

G-shocks tend to have countdown and alarms...

Edited by ShadownINja on Friday 21st August 08:29

It has a sweep second hand, the coloured circles are just a quick referance to tell you which minute you are in ...

[ShadownINja]

XJSJohn said:

ShadownINja said:

XJSJohn said:

Then this doesn't make sense. Parallax could have you starting too early or too late. Need to be a digital watch with a countdown timer. Casio probably do one for £15.

G-shocks tend to have countdown and alarms...

Edited by ShadownINja on Friday 21st August 08:29

It has a sweep second hand, the coloured circles are just a quick referance to tell you which minute you are in ...

Furrymuff!!

[Stitch]

Anonimo do a very nice looking regatta watch

http://www.anonimo.com/models/TP_racing.html