Hats

[Slow_boat]

What hat do you wear aboard?

I usually wear a straw Panama-type in good weather, as I do ashore and a waterproofed Breton cap in not-so-good weather. I usually wear a broad brimmed trilby in not-so-good weather ashore but it would blow away on a boat. I would only wear a baseball cap if everything else had blown overboard and my head was burning. I can think of no circumstances when I would wear one ashore.

And why do some people take the mick out of Tilley hats or Breton caps? Is it just snobbery / fashion?

 

[Deleted member 36384]

I have a floppy, large brimmed hat, Tilly Style, to keep the sun off my bald head. However, its mostly beanies on the chilly Firth of Clyde. I occasionally wear my "Knackered Sailor" base ball cap when sailing upwind and watching the tell tales; better than the floppy large brimmed hat.

I am aware that such motif styled base ball caps (as well as wide brimmed hats) are considered naff by some however those views are not important.

 

[prv]

I used to wear a Tilly hat when sailing, but these days I find the brim makes it harder to glance up at the burgee and sails. I suppose in the past I used to charter with a boatload of mates and spent less time helming. I do still wear it in the rain, sometimes with the front brim flipped up (to avoid the aforementioned issue) which probably looks ridiculous but stops the rain running down my neck.

In cold weather I wear a black knitted "woolly" hat (actually acrylic) with a small brim on the front, which reduces the amount of rain getting on my glasses.

Pete

 

[VO5]

I used to wear a Tilly hat when sailing, but these days I find the brim makes it harder to glance up at the burgee and sails. I suppose in the past I used to charter with a boatload of mates and spent less time helming. I do still wear it in the rain, sometimes with the front brim flipped up (to avoid the aforementioned issue) which probably looks ridiculous but stops the rain running down my neck.

In cold weather I wear a black knitted "woolly" hat (actually acrylic) with a small brim on the front, which reduces the amount of rain getting on my glasses.

Pete

I can turn the front of the brim of my tilley upwards to give me a better view of the rig above. Miraculously it stays like that. Why don't you try it ?

 

[jamesjermain]

What hat do you wear aboard?

I usually wear a straw Panama-type in good weather, as I do ashore and a waterproofed Breton cap in not-so-good weather. I usually wear a broad brimmed trilby in not-so-good weather ashore but it would blow away on a boat. I would only wear a baseball cap if everything else had blown overboard and my head was burning. I can think of no circumstances when I would wear one ashore.

And why do some people take the mick out of Tilley hats or Breton caps? Is it just snobbery / fashion?

Tilly hat in almost all condition - wonderful thing but a bit battered and permanently stained now.

If not the Tilly, a baseball cap under an foulie hood. The brim makes the hood move with my head so I can see when I turn to look to the side.

In very calm conditions and ashore, a light panama

 

[snowleopard]

Tilley if it's sunny, beanie if it's cold, otherwise none. Hats make my head itch.

 

[Slow_boat]

Oh, and a fleece and waterproof hat with earflaps for when it's really cold.

 

[Salty John]

Watch cap in winter, baseball cap in summer. I blogged on this very subject earlier this year:
http://saltyjohn.blogspot.com/2011/01/hats.html

 

[Evadne]

When it's cold I wear a fleece beanie type hat and in heavy rain a Sowester.
At a garden show of all places, this spring I bought a Seth Efrican "bush hat" (or veldtkap if you're an afrikaner). Far superior to the cloth ones at keeping the rain out, it also doubles as a sun hat on the rare occasions that is needed in England. The wide brim is a bit of a liability in the wind, though, so it's more suited to walking than sailing.

 

[Wansworth]

I used a deerstalker which was most effective in the winter especially for the ears.I find for general use a flat cap is ok .When its sunny I wear a visor that tennis ladies wear which keeps the glare off my glasses and stays on in a breeze.I have a chinese made visor about 30 cms long wichis great for keeping the sun off my nose but does catch the wind.

 

[Slow_boat]

Yes, I'd like a sowester but they are a bit pricey.

 

[jhr]

Baseball cap in the summer, Henry Lloyd beanie hat when it's cold. In my defence, I don't turn the baseball cap the wrong way round....

For many years, I had a battered and much loved Weird Fish baseball cap, purchased in Salcombe. I don't know why, but it always felt absolutely right when I wore it. A couple of years ago, it was lost at sea (or outside Newtown, more correctly) and my grief was long and loud - no other cap feels quite right. This summer, we went to Salcombe for the first time in about ten years and, on a whim, I wandered into the Weird Fish shop and said "You haven't got any baseball caps, have you"? "I think there's only one left" the shopkeeper replied "It's been on display, so I'll knock 25% off".

I feel whole again

 

[Searush]

Beat that!

In reality, I have a much more practical battered Breton cap that is very comfortable & keeps my syrup dry & the sun out of my Minces. Woolie hat in winter & white "cricketer style" or straw trilby in summer. Much depends on my mood. Hats are like dressing up, they can change how you feel & act.

 

[Robin]

Tilley in sun, used to be just a visor but need more hair for that alone. Breton used to be night sail option but mine has shrunk or head got bigger than offset by shrinking hair, so new choice is a guernsey oiled wool bobbleless bobble hat. Wet weather have a proper sou'wester, much better than oily hoods or cold and wet have a PVC waterproof fur lined thing with earflaps, but only if water doesn't run down my neck when the sou'wester goes back on. Also have a collection of golf themed baseball hats, sometimes wear a light coloured one in the sun for golf.

New boat based in Florida has a permanent bimini and a permanent shaded sundeck, so it will be nothing at sea, but the Tilley when ashore in the sun in marine areas or one of those golf themed baseball hats in other places. I even left my spare Tilley on board over there, ready and waiting.

 

[sighmoon]

Another one with a Tilley. Good sun protection and stays on properly in the wind.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

A musto lined one with flaps but only when it's very cold usually at night and or pi**ing down at other times the stuff growing out of the top of my head and a pair of Maui Jim polarised sun specs suffice. Ashore nothing unless I am shooting or more recently fishing when it's a 20 year old Akubra, more recent Stetson or cap depends on what comes to hand and the weather, wouldn't be seen dead in a baseball cap

 

[sighmoon]

Another one with a Tilley. Good sun protection and stays on properly in the wind.

 

[jimi]

Captain's hat , of course

 

[prv]

I used to wear a Tilly hat when sailing, but these days I find the brim makes it harder to glance up at the burgee and sails.[...] I do still wear it in the rain, sometimes with the front brim flipped up (to avoid the aforementioned issue)

I can turn the front of the brim of my tilley upwards to give me a better view of the rig above. Miraculously it stays like that. Why don't you try it ?

Pete

 

[jhr]