Do pyjamas still have a role in sailing ?

parsifal said:
One of the advantages of old age (and there aren't many) is that one no longer gives a **** what anyone thinks. If one wants to wear jimjams and carpet slippers, then one does. The desire to appear to be a tough-guy to impress the girls (who, if they have any sense, won't be), or intimidate fellow juveniles, evaporates. :rolleyes:
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Hallelujah. Sense at last
 
LONG_KEELER said:
I believe they still play a major role . Particularly if you are an anchorer .
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I wear pyjamas on the boat most of the year to keep warm at night.

Whenever I up anchor I end up smeared with mud (being the East Coast, and having no windlass), which then adorns my clothes for the rest of the day. A few weeks ago I had a wizard wheeze, and stayed in my pyjamas to get the anchor up. I could then just bundle the muddy pyjamas into a bag to take home to wash, and spend the rest of the day in mud free clothes. The next occasion the wind was too cold to be on deck in just pyjamas, so I got dressed and then put the pyjamas on again as overallls over my day wear.

I look forward to PBO doing a comparative test to find the best pyjamas for anchoring!
 
When I did my bronze swimming certificate I had to swim up and down for a while wearing pyjamas and then take the trousers off to make a float by tying knots in the end of the legs and then throwing them waist first down into the water thus trapping air in the legs. I can honestly say that the idea was exactly as effective as it sounds but some may consider pyjamas a form of PFD perhaps.
 
I'm surprised your not all wearing onesies. No chance of any indecent exposure as you have with, even finely tailored, nightshirts.
 
adwuk said:
I'm surprised your not all wearing onesies. No chance of any indecent exposure as you have with, even finely tailored, nightshirts.
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Onesies are for the feckless, dissoloute and the school run.
Decent or indecent exposure in a nightshirt is a matter of opinion. You shouls not be looking at 03:00!
 
LittleSister said:
I wear pyjamas on the boat most of the year to keep warm at night.

Whenever I up anchor I end up smeared with mud (being the East Coast, and having no windlass), which then adorns my clothes for the rest of the day. A few weeks ago I had a wizard wheeze, and stayed in my pyjamas to get the anchor up. I could then just bundle the muddy pyjamas into a bag to take home to wash, and spend the rest of the day in mud free clothes. The next occasion the wind was too cold to be on deck in just pyjamas, so I got dressed and then put the pyjamas on again as overallls over my day wear.

I look forward to PBO doing a comparative test to find the best pyjamas for anchoring!
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News Flash! Water proofs (some even specifically designed for sailing) have recently been invented. :rolleyes:

Not suggesting that you use them as PJs, but good for wearing in wet or muddy conditions.
 
NormanS said:
News Flash! Water proofs (some even specifically designed for sailing) have recently been invented. :rolleyes:

Not suggesting that you use them as PJs, but good for wearing in wet or muddy conditions.
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Incontinence! The damp muddy PJs hide an incontenance problem, far better than waterproofs.
 
BlowingOldBoots said:
Incontinence! The damp muddy PJs hide an incontenance problem, far better than waterproofs.
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I always remember a notice in someone's beach house (Bach) in NZ. It said, " Doing a good turn around here is like having a pee in your wetsuit, it gives you an all-over warm feeling, and nobody knows you've done it".
 
NormanS said:
I always remember a notice in someone's beach house (Bach) in NZ. It said, " Doing a good turn around here is like having a pee in your wetsuit, it gives you an all-over warm feeling, and nobody knows you've done it".
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I recall sailing from Tobermory to somewhere quite far in very BAD weather and I needed to go...
I had to sit in rather smelly oillies for hours. Then the showers were locked.
 
NormanS said:
News Flash! Water proofs (some even specifically designed for sailing) have recently been invented. :rolleyes:

Not suggesting that you use them as PJs, but good for wearing in wet or muddy conditions.
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Get too hot hauling the chain and anchor in my foulies, and if I do they're then splattered with mud. (Less of a problem now I'm back berthed in a marina with a hose to hand, but when we were on a swinging mooring . . . .) Of course, some lightweight overalls would do, but it'd be yet one more thing cluttering up the inside of our little boat, so for the typical weekend jaunt to an anchorage for the night the PJs do the trick.
 
Some of us sail with female friends who are JUST friends and who would not welcome the sight of a hairy male, bleary eyed and stark naked wanting the head in the middle of the night.

The ravages of time and beer on the body make it not a pretty sight and anything that adds concealment is welcome.
 
When on the wifes boat pyjamas are the normal for sleeping (bed with full size double bed mattress).
Slippers and dressing gown are reserved for morning tea.
 
Gwylan said:
Onesies are for the feckless, dissoloute and the school run.
Decent or indecent exposure in a nightshirt is a matter of opinion. You shouls not be looking at 03:00!
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ya dont get crocodile nightshirts, onesies are another matter.

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