LONG_KEELER
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on cruisers that is. In the summer.
Is it ok to wear fingerless sailing gloves
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Boathook
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I do. Hands are soft from to much tapping keyboards in an office!
LadyInBed
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Some wear short trousers and boots, so why not? :ambivalence:
philld
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I do so quite regularly. They come off when they are likely to get wet and manky.
Tomahawk
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I find fingerless gloves ride up and get uncomfortable.
scotty123
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Only when cycling.
[70521]
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Wear whatever you think is necessary.
Personally I do, like Boathook the day job means I tap away on a keyboard and don't find blisters particularly comfortable.
Personally I do, like Boathook the day job means I tap away on a keyboard and don't find blisters particularly comfortable.
Robert Wilson
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I think it's a good idea, and might try them.
I recently enjoyed some pretty hard work for a fortnight, with a great deal of "rope work" in some testing conditions. (single handed, so I get to do the lot!)
After two weeks my hands were "polished", calloused and painful. Heaving in sheets, chain, reef lines, halyards etc resulted in skin like thick steel.
It has taken nearly a month to loose the flaking skin, callouses, splits and hacks (keens) - and I don't spend all my day at a keyboard!
I recently enjoyed some pretty hard work for a fortnight, with a great deal of "rope work" in some testing conditions. (single handed, so I get to do the lot!)
After two weeks my hands were "polished", calloused and painful. Heaving in sheets, chain, reef lines, halyards etc resulted in skin like thick steel.
It has taken nearly a month to loose the flaking skin, callouses, splits and hacks (keens) - and I don't spend all my day at a keyboard!
JumbleDuck
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Why wouldn't it be? I've been wearing fingerless suede gloves for summer sailing for as long as I can remember.
Greenheart
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My sister gave me fingerless suede sailing gloves about 25 years ago. Granted, dinghying may be a different set of requirements from yacht cruising, but mine have proved excellent wear-resisters. No point pretending they're warm, but that's not their intended purpose.
I bought some great-looking £40 Sealskinz neoprene gloves for actual warmth, last year. I didn't get round to wearing them till this April, and the neoprene ripped away from the wear-patches. The old fingerless suedes still get my vote.
I bought some great-looking £40 Sealskinz neoprene gloves for actual warmth, last year. I didn't get round to wearing them till this April, and the neoprene ripped away from the wear-patches. The old fingerless suedes still get my vote.
lw395
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People crewing any remotely high performance dinghy seem to get through at least one pair of sailing gloves a year.
Hence we look at cheap gloves from Screwfix.
It's a commonly held opinion that full-finger gloves can be dangerous on a yacht, that the gloves make it more likely your fingers will be drawn into a winch. In industry, gloves are banned for some operations such as grinding, you might lose a little skin but you will keep your fingers.
I prefer not to wear gloves unless it's cold, and then I take them off for some things, like using a winch. So the ease of getting them on and off quickly with wet hands becomes paramount.
These are good for winter Laser sailing:
https://www.toolstation.com/watertite-grip-gloves/p52946
as they are fully dipped there is little windchill.
These are worth a try on a yacht?
https://www.toolstation.com/stanley-performance-fingerless-gloves/p36425
Or you could slice the fingers off some rigger gloves.
Hence we look at cheap gloves from Screwfix.
It's a commonly held opinion that full-finger gloves can be dangerous on a yacht, that the gloves make it more likely your fingers will be drawn into a winch. In industry, gloves are banned for some operations such as grinding, you might lose a little skin but you will keep your fingers.
I prefer not to wear gloves unless it's cold, and then I take them off for some things, like using a winch. So the ease of getting them on and off quickly with wet hands becomes paramount.
These are good for winter Laser sailing:
https://www.toolstation.com/watertite-grip-gloves/p52946
as they are fully dipped there is little windchill.
These are worth a try on a yacht?
https://www.toolstation.com/stanley-performance-fingerless-gloves/p36425
Or you could slice the fingers off some rigger gloves.
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I wear fingerless gloves in warmer weather for hauling rope, chain if I need to get a better grip because my soft keyboard non-calloused hands get torn up easily these days. I don't wear gloves for working sheets on a winch, fingerless or not.
These days, on an extended cruise, I find that my hands chafe and skin blisters about mid cruise, hence will use my fingerless gloves to stop the situation getting worse. Most of the time I won't bother until I need to.
So, yes, use fingerless gloves on a cruising boat if you need to.
These days, on an extended cruise, I find that my hands chafe and skin blisters about mid cruise, hence will use my fingerless gloves to stop the situation getting worse. Most of the time I won't bother until I need to.
So, yes, use fingerless gloves on a cruising boat if you need to.
johnalison
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Very many years ago I did a sailing course and one of our number was an ophthalmic surgeon. He maintained that sailing benefitted him greatly by making the skin on his fingers supple and sensitive. I don't generally wear gloves except against the cold but I usually find it hard to grip the main halyard well at the start of the season and wear rubberised gloves for the task of raising the main for the first few outings. Fingerless ones would do the job as well.
LONG_KEELER
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Have used gauntlet type sailing gloves for early and late season . Also longer trips.
I'm a recent convert to finger- less suede gloves for other times and find sheeting and halyard work much easier .
They don't really go with a cravat and blazer though.
I'm a recent convert to finger- less suede gloves for other times and find sheeting and halyard work much easier .
They don't really go with a cravat and blazer though.
laika
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+1. I'm genuinely confused. I've never seen "fingerless gloves whilst cruising" mentioned in the same category as socks-with-sandals. While cruising I don't see what's going to trump the practicality of being able to do fiddly rope work whilst still protecting your palms. Off the boat I see that post-apocalyptic rock-chic may not be to everybody's tastes but if it's good enough for snake...
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Muddy32
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Only if you have lost your fingers.
alan_d
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One drawback of sailing gloves I discovered last season. If you are holding a mug over the sink while you fill it with boiling water out of the kettle and the boat gives a lurch you may pour boiling water over your fingers. With bare hands it is a bit sore at the time but no harm done, with gloves the boiling water is kept in contact with the skin and you are more likely to develop a blister. (Of course, I know you should stand the mug in the sink and keep your hands out of the way.)
Gin
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Whenever I am afloat- psoriatic damage to fingers means skin is thin, dehydrates quickly and then cracks open at the phalange joint creases , then there’s blood everywhere, which is painful for me and unpleasant for others
I couldn’t do without them
Birdseye
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how else can you pick your nose?
Greenheart
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Don't you have a crew?
