hats

[PabloPicasso]

What hat do you wear when sailing? I'm after one with a narrowish brim that won't come off!

 

[[159032]]

Having two ears helps a lot. You rarely see a pic of van Gogh with a hat without a strap to hold it on.

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[Poignard]

What hat do you wear when sailing? I'm after one with a narrowish brim that won't come off!

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Whichever one is left after the others have been blown over the side ?

 

[RJJ]

Baseball cap with a string; string has a plastic clip to your t shirt or oilies.

 

[richardbrennan]

Tilley Hat.

 

[JumbleDuck]

A Breton cap, but only where nobody can see me.

 

[coopec]

https://www.hatsbythe100.com.au/med...8d6e5fb8d27136e95/9/6/965_wm_2.1517275779.jpg

 

[coopec]

What hat do you wear when sailing? I'm after one with a narrowish brim that won't come off!

I buy mine on eBAY.-- HUGE selection.

yachting hat | eBay

 

[Neeves]

I hate the brims, you need to lean too far back to see the masthead and they obscure obstructions that come round and hit you on the forehead.

Bandanas

Jonathan

 

[dunedin]

Depends why wearing the hat - avoiding frostbite in winter, keeping dry in rain, avoiding sunburn etc. Different hats for each purpose. (None a baseball cap, which is useless for everything boatie except spinnaker trimming, and skin consultant banned as lacked rim round back so useless for sun protection.)

 

[PilotWolf]

I hate hats.

I think I may have worn one a couple of times in the ambulance service, and a couple of times when I was with fisheries protection for court. And my sister-in-law‘s wedding I attended in full dress uniform with ribbons. I wasn’t popular as I put the green to shame!

oh. and a wolly one when I was a fisherman if it was really cold.

W.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

The Slam sunhat in the photo and for rain a baseball cap. For cold a thermal (Thinsolate) beany. For cold and wet a baseball cap with a thermal beany, or wooly hat over it. The peak of the baseball cap helps to keep rain off my glasses. For really cold weather a Russian Army ushanka. I don't use the ushanka much!

 

[neil_s]

A narrow brim sun-hat. A little bit of elastic holds it on in the wind. If you don't need the elastic just leave it in the top.

 

[Mikedefieslife]

Backwards baseball cap for the win. Otherwise they blow off when looking up checking sail trim. And as Wu Tang say "Protect ya neck" ?

They do have a habit of going missing still. Latest losses were two in Portugal, one Cascais, one in Lagos, and one in Dominica. There are other scattered about the Med too.

 

[Gixer]

I hate the brims, you need to lean too far back to see the masthead and they obscure obstructions that come round and hit you on the forehead.

Like Mike I wear my Musto cap back to front, although that springy thing with the metal clip on it keeps poking me in the eye.

 

[Rappey]

Could the type of hat chosen or needed be relative to the amount of hair one has left ? ?

 

[Andrew_Trayfoot]

Musto Original Crew Cap.
Has string and clip

 

[Halo]

White Tilley hat in the sun
Black Lowe Alpine cap with peak in moderate cold
Cheap Russian Shapka (knock off with synthetic fur ) in January
Benne hat when doing winter repairs
Someone else’s when Antifouling
Baseball cap in pub
You can’t beat a good hat when your hair has gone

 

[johnalison]

F0-3 Tilley lookalike from Millets
F4-7 Musto 'cap' with retaining clip
F 8+ You're joking
<60 degrees F, Woolly beanie thing with ear cover.

 

[alan_d]

I hate hats.

W.

I was much the same when I still had hair.... Now, brimmed hat to keep the sun off, wooly hat when cold or baseball cap under the hood of my oilies to keep the rain off my glasses.