You are not alone David....if this is any comfort?
Same goes for me...could be much, much worst. I know, my mother got blind because of glaucomia.
regards my friend
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

Should've gone to Specsavers!

Ah yes - the shadows of the ropes still confuse it for my poor old eyes

I've seen wrong IMO numbers painted on ships on couple of ocasions, but this is not one of them; her IMO number is indeed 9EightSix4746. :)

Cheers

Vlad

Presumably they'll correct the IMO number on the stern in due course (9634746 isn't even a valid number)