Are Rugby Shirts still ok to wear for sailing

[Chiara’s slave]

Depends who you play - or played - for.

Not sure my shirt from my time turning out for the Old Vasectomists Extra 'B' would turn many heads..................

If it still fits, it’s all good.

 

[Daydream believer]

I don't want to look like an idiot at Cowes this year.

Better stay at home then

 

[jbweston]

You’ll need to wear the right gear to get invited to any of the most interesting parties. It’s a sporting event so you’ll need something streamlined and fitted not like the baggy stuff of old. Cotton clothing can easily lead to exposure and cold so stick with the fully waterproof clothing, in a fabric tough enough to survive racing. Most heat loss is through your head so the select gentleman will be sporting an all-over body suit of PVC or rubber which fits the bill nicely, there are plenty to choose from via online outlets.

I guess it depends what you mean by 'the most interesting parties'.

There's a narrow dividing line between smart fashionable and looking like Barbie's Ken or Lt Commander Buster Crabb in his last-mission work clothes. I find blue corduroy trousers and a blue woollover (with or without additional blue fleece) work for most situations afloat and ashore apart from funerals, weddings and Glyndebourne.

 

[st599]

You need to add a tie so you can get in to the Squadron.

 

[mjcoon]

It always bought a smile watching people in full foul weather gear hanging onto the straps of an underground train....think Earls Court.,

Conversely I enjoyed, in the 1970s, coming back to my Kensington flat via underground from a Med sailing holiday wearing T-shirt, shorts and tan...

 

[Wandering Star]

I lived with an uncle and aunt in Nevern Square, Earls Court for a couple of years in my early teens and we enjoyed complimentary free tickets to the boat show provided by the organisers as a sort of compensation for the congestion and crowded residents parking caused by the visitors during the period of the show.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Coller up = W, coller down ok-ish.

Good to moderate then.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

You’ll need to wear the right gear to get invited to any of the most interesting parties. It’s a sporting event so you’ll need something streamlined and fitted not like the baggy stuff of old. Cotton clothing can easily lead to exposure and cold so stick with the fully waterproof clothing, in a fabric tough enough to survive racing. Most heat loss is through your head so the select gentleman will be sporting an all-over body suit of PVC or rubber which fits the bill nicely, there are plenty to choose from via online outlets.

Thanks.
Now I know what to get.
Having just paid my annual marina bill
I'm now off to blitz the charity shops.

 

[ylop]

I don't want to look like an idiot at Cowes this year.

Does your skipper not provide all the crew with matching kit - so you look like you are on a hen night?

 

[Dellquay13]

Get up to speed with this year's new look.

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Is that brim upturned to let you see your telltales?

 

[Wansworth]

Chichester is a fertile charity shop area for sailing clothes with the added worn look that cost money if bought new!

 

[KevinV]

I kindly make others feel terribly well dressed and superior by my sailing garb

 

[Daydream believer]

I kindly make others feel terribly well dressed and superior by my sailing garb

We had noticed

 

[newtothis]

I'm told a lot of ocean sailors in warmer lattitudes despense with clothes altogether to save on laundry.
You could try adopting that for Cowes Week, should the weather permit.

 

[mjcoon]

I'm told a lot of ocean sailors in warmer latitudes dispense with clothes altogether to save on laundry.
You could try adopting that for Cowes Week, should the weather permit.

Some people like to have their handy-billy tackle always to hand...

 

[Seashoreman]

I'm told a lot of ocean sailors in warmer lattitudes despense with clothes altogether to save on laundry.
You could try adopting that for Cowes Week, should the weather permit.

Not too many years back I got down to my boxers in mid-North Sea, Alde to Netherlands. Miracles can happen.

 

[st599]

I'm told a lot of ocean sailors in warmer lattitudes despense with clothes altogether to save on laundry.
You could try adopting that for Cowes Week, should the weather permit.

One of may uni mates who was in the Andrew tried to enter the Squadron and was rejected for not wearing a tie, so went shopping and came back wearing just a tie. Turns out the Squadron lie about the wearing of a tie giving access to the clubhouse.

 

[Wansworth]

Some people like to have their handy-billy tackle always to hand...

The Sun is fiercer these days so your tackle should not be exposed….I would have thought

 

[Wansworth]

One of may uni mates who was in the Andrew tried to enter the Squadron and was rejected for not wearing a tie, so went shopping and came back wearing just a tie. Turns out the Squadron lie about the wearing of a tie giving access to the clubhouse.

I would have thought something like that the upper echelons could take in their stride….

 

[Mister E]

Thanks.
Now I know what to get.
Having just paid my annual marina bill
I'm now off to blitz the charity shops.

After that bill can you afford it. If not just borrow something from a wife.