Hats

[Slow_boat]

I've sailed wearing one of them!

It was a one-off Cherub design called Rape and Pillage so we wore viking helmets. We went belting past Morning Cloud once, it must have been about 1973. A certain pair of shoulders were seen rising and falling!

 

[TiggerToo]

What hat do you wear aboard?

Lost my beloved Tilley off the Old Man of Kinsale in a brisk F5 and did not manage to retrieve it in an impromptu HoB exercise... I am still so ashamed of that, that I have not ordered its replacement.

Breton, goes on now, but second best.

 

[johnalison]

My sun-hat is an object of great beauty bought in Clacton many years ago. Unfortunately SWMBO is blind to its obvious merits and has been threatening to bin it for ages. I think she must be a witch because it has now developed a large hole and will soon have to be replaced.

 

[Lakesailor]

Usually no hat, but I've just been out to look at Feckless as the new owner rang to say the warden had seen the boom down and made it fast.
As it was "between showers I set off, but took the precaution of my sailing jacket, waterproof overtrousers and my Hoggs of Fife Turnberry hat

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How pleased I was.

"Between showers" changed to f6 (just checked on web), thunder and hail.

I've never had the tender get so much water in at any time, never mind in 15 minutes.

(It was the topping lift sheave at the mast head seems to have broken.)

 

[salinia]

I find this hat comfortable to wear and it keeps the sun out of my eyes

 

[fishermantwo]

Boonie hat.



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Boonie-H..._Adult_Unisex_Accessories&hash=item3f0f17f659

 

[Marmalade]

Panama in port
Tilly style hat on passage
Full on trapper hat / sheepskin / earflaps in winter

 

[st599]

Army surplus store desert hat. Keeps sun off eyes, ears and neck. Stays on in high wind. And, because its made for the army, its cheap.

 

[DaveS]

El cheapo sun hat from Millets. The sides tend to curl up and make it look like something from a cowboy film, but it keeps the sun out of my eyes which is the main thing. For rain I have a souwester acquired from a tourist shop in Nova Scotia which actually works very well.

 

[AIDY]

sowester every day !

 

[Talbot]

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

+1

 

[mcframe]

In very calm conditions and ashore, a light panama

With a white tuxedo, if south of Casablanca.

 

[Carmel2]

Long hair in the winter, short hair in the summer. The fact that a hat has been through a elephant's backside is not a selling point to me.

 

[Slow_boat]

Long hair in the winter, short hair in the summer. The fact that a hat has been through a elephant's backside is not a selling point to me.

I'm not sure that every tilley hat is tested in that manner. Maybe one in ten.