Cheap sailing watches

Well it's come that time when I think I might need my back up cheapo watch so went to fish it out of the watch drawer... Sure enough, like all the other watches in the graveyard of time and timekepers.. it's dead, so that was good then, don't think other than when it came out of the parcel I ever got to actually check the time on it..

Meanwhile reliable as ever my once again refurbed Optimum soldiers on looking like a brand new watch, don't know wether they just get fed up with me returning it year after year and put a new one in the box or they just cleaned it, but I guess it'll do another winter season

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I guess Andre01 does as I do and sets the countdown timer to, say, 5 mins then runs it down one or two seconds to allow time to start it if you just miss the 5 min gun. It's pretty easy to count seconds for a couple of seconds and you won't be more than say half a second out which is close enough for me. I have an Optimum Time so I can fine tune it using the sync feature if I miss by more but two secs is usually enough. The real problems arise if you don't hear the gun.......