a hat that does not make me look like a twassockt

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Posting pictures of twassocks in hats is no way to reply to the question a hat that does not make me look like a twassock

My brief survey in Mylor this weekend shows that 95% of all sailors wear baseball caps or Tilleys. There is a reason for this. None of them looked like twassocks.

Sort out your pathological hatred and learn to not drop things overboard.
 
Bought one of these in a mild panic one damp morning in Fort William in 2007, in advance of an all-day music festival.

http://www.millets.co.uk/clothing/m...ool-plus-widebrim-hat.html?attribute=15429695

It served my purpose well (ie. keeping my head dry), but is equally good at sun protection. I have waterproofed it with Nikwax twice since, and it remains one of my all-time 'good decisions' - and there aren't many of those!
 
Bowler Hat?

An old friend called Martin Thomas used to sail wearing an old bowler hat. He said it kept the sun out of his eyes, the rain from going down his collar, and was excellent protection during a jybe. Also useful with drips down below, of which there were many in his lovely old wooden yacht.
Doubtless some of you would also give it high marks on the Twassock scale, but I don't think he would give a d**n what you think.
 
Ex-SolentBoy said:
Posting pictures of twassocks in hats is no way to reply to the question a hat that does not make me look like a twassock

My brief survey in Mylor this weekend shows that 95% of all sailors wear baseball caps or Tilleys. There is a reason for this. None of them looked like twassocks.

Sort out your pathological hatred and learn to not drop things overboard.
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Yotties only wear baseball caps cos the Regatta Sponsors give them away free in the skippers freebie nav bag or rucksac, or they fish them out of the water at the end of the racing as an MOB practice!!!!

Posting piccys will make Dylan realise that he will fit right in, not look a Twassie, what ever he wears.
In fact, compared to the victims posted, he may even look dashing in Mrs D's eyes by comparison.
Anyway it's raining and grey and you've got to have a grin- finding my pics brought a lot of fun times afloat memories back, so not wasted time IMHO.:D:D:D
 
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I remember outside The Chain Locker, Falmouth - a finer base for serious sailors would be had to find - I once saw a chap wearing a top hat with a white mouse running around the brim; how could Dylan fail to cut a dash with that ?
 
The good thing about base ball caps is that apart from keeping the sun out of your eyes, when its hissing down and you put your jacket hood up over your head the beck of the baseball cap prevents the hood from coming down over your face obscuring your vision.
 
salinia said:
The good thing about base ball caps is that apart from keeping the sun out of your eyes, when its hissing down and you put your jacket hood up over your head the beck of the baseball cap prevents the hood from coming down over your face obscuring your vision.
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Personally, I never put a hood up summer or winter, wet or fine- a doctrine, hammered into me at a young age, is that it promotes 'tunnel vision' and not enough 360 vision/observations-seen it too, with bad results, on bikes, boats and pedestrians- people shrink into their hoods and lose focus.
it's like letting the helm/duty watch cower behind the sprayhood all the time, they sink into a reverie about how miserable/cold/wet/hungry they are, instead of being warmed by hatred of the Skipper as they shiver at the helm:D
 
Tidewaiter2 said:
Personally, I never put a hood up summer or winter, wet or fine- a doctrine, hammered into me at a young age, is that it promotes 'tunnel vision' and not enough 360 vision/observations
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Not sure I'd call it a "doctrine", but certainly I don't like wearing a hood. Much rather a hat, that turns with my head. The only place I've ever worn a hood was as ballast on the rail when racing, when shrinking down inside your oilies is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Pete
 
Melanomas.

Wide Brimmed Floppy Hats.. About a tenner in Asda or Tesco with a bit of knicker elastic sewn in as a chinstrap make me look a Twassock, but I dont care, Cutting or burning out nasties with with liquid nitrogen can hurt .. I know.

Looking a Twassaock is a small price to pay-wear a wide brimmed hat !
 
Tidewaiter2 said:
Personally, I never put a hood up summer or winter, wet or fine- a doctrine, hammered into me at a young age, is that it promotes 'tunnel vision' and not enough 360 vision/observations-seen it too, with bad results, on bikes, boats and pedestrians- people shrink into their hoods and lose focus.
it's like letting the helm/duty watch cower behind the sprayhood all the time, they sink into a reverie about how miserable/cold/wet/hungry they are, instead of being warmed by hatred of the Skipper as they shiver at the helm:D
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I'm not a big fan of hoods but if you get one that adjusts properly you can draw it round your face so that it follows your head when you look round.
 
I purchased a tilly type hat for 15 quid and with my summer jacket cut a dash in Chichester high street,so much so that I was accosted by an American woman who may of been a nyphomaniac but the complement was unexpected...
 
No-one's posted a pic of a wide brimmed hat with a brim stiff enough to face into a F6 whilst retaining a functioning peak.

I wear glasses, and the peak is essential to retain vision in any precipitation, so I buy baseball caps whenever I'm near a charity shop - usually pay a quid or so, get through ave 3 per year - and of course it's always the nicest you lose first, 'cos that's the one you wear.

Thinking (seriously) about a stetson, for ear & neck coverage (I hate hoods, too) with strong wind peak functionality.
 
maxcampbell said:
No-one's posted a pic of a wide brimmed hat with a brim stiff enough to face into a F6 whilst retaining a functioning peak.



Thinking (seriously) about a stetson, for ear & neck coverage (I hate hoods, too) with strong wind peak functionality.
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Remember 'Gabby 'Hayes, Stagecoach Driver to John Wayne in many Westerns- even his brim turned up in front!
 
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