Any suggestions guys? They will be on the boat and will be used primarily for spotting striper boils. Also may come in handy for spotting ladies sunbathing.

I was looking at www.binoculars.com and the Fujinons look great. I'll spend up to $700 or so. Any suggestions?

I have a real nice set from Pentax that my family pitched in to buy me one xmas when I was still big in hunting tuna.  Rarely used them.

As for spotting a striper/bluefish boil, I have great difficulty using binocs for this.  I can pick out "odd" water and diving birds from a distance.  I find it much easier to spot them with the raw eyes (20/20 still).  I have always had a knack of spotting the schools long before the other boats.  My friend that runs fly charters here in RI is the only guy I know with the same level of sight.  So maybe it's just me and my luck that my eyes haven't started to go yet but if you have decent vision to begin with TRY a pair before you drop $700.  If you want to pay the shipping, I'll gladly send you mine to demo.

Thank you for the offer L_B_H.  Much appreciated, but if anything happened to them I would fell really bad.  Murphy's law is a SOB.

I wear contacts and have terrible vision, also San Luis Reservoir is a HUGE lake - the landlocked world record came out of there so there are massive stripers swimming in it.  A good set of binoculars are a must.  

These Burris stabilizing binoculars are really excellent for boating.  You fix the image in the viewfinder and then hit the stabilizer button.  Even as the boat rocks and rolls the desired image is "fixed" into the view finder.  Other than these I have always found the steiner 7X50 marine to be excellent.

They make an intersting, 7x50 marine rangefingiing model, that can come in hand on big water.  I don't know about you, but I can't tell if an island is a mile away, or 10.

http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog.TextId?hvarTextId=81485&hvarTarget=search&cmCat=SearchResults

good luck and have fun

I have a pair of Nikons that I bought a few years ago for about 130 bucks that I really like and I guess you could classify as marine binoculars since I use them to check out the the girls in bikini's on two beaches at a local  lake I fish. The lake is near Frostburg State U, thats right.    ;D