Mount Gay rum red regatta caps - Have you got one?

[Rum_Pirate]

Mount Gay hands out distinctive red baseball caps to all sailing participants at its sponsored regattas.

These caps are not for sale.

These "red hats" are coveted by many because if you see someone wearing one, it means they have sailed in a regatta.

These hats are prized amongst top sailors.

Some end up being sold on eBay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trks...at=0&_from=R40

Have you got one?

 

[Rum_Pirate]

PS the crew in the pic in the above post are not crew on KATE.

 

[Manuel_Hung]

Second from the right... C-c-c-combo breaker!

 

[snooks]

I did have a red mount gay cap from Fowey Week, not as glamourous as some Caribbean race week I grant you, but much more exclusive

 

[Richard Shead]

Mount Gay hands out distinctive red baseball caps to all sailing participants at its sponsored regattas.

These caps are not for sale.

These "red hats" are coveted by many because if you see someone wearing one, it means they have sailed in a regatta.

These hats are prized amongst top sailors.

Some end up being sold on eBay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trks...at=0&_from=R40

Have you got one?

Yea I have a "virgin" one. No name no regatta simply mount gay. Worth a few bob and given to me by the distillery.

 

[geem]

Got a few from Antigua and Grenada.

 

[bbg]

Prized? Really? I have a few sitting in a drawer somewhere, never worn. From about 15 or 20 years ago. I guess I'll have to dig them out and flog them on ebay.

 

[Blackfeather]

2nd and 3rd from the right are Siamese twins

 

[Budgieboy]

Asked the Distillery for one in Feb when on a tour there , after sailing the Atlantic and 16 days at sea thought I deserved one but they wouldnt budge , bought a T shirt and 3 bottles of rum instead !!

 

[Salty John]

I've had a couple of regatta endorsed caps and quite a few plain ones. Participants get the endorsed ones, support people and guests tend to get the plain ones.
They look a bit naff until they weather into a soft pink. Like jeans and deck shoes they have a relatively short 'cool' life between new and throw away condition.

 

[Woodlouse]

I had one for about ten minutes last summer. Then I was tackled off a chair and the hat was lost in a crowd. To be honest I wasn't that bothered.

 

[jamesjermain]

Several, all very faded and well worn.

 

[sailorgirl]

We've a collection from regattas here in Dubai... the skipper hopes at least one will fade to an acceptable shade of dusky pink before it either rots or gets lost overboard but I don't hold out much hope.

 

[Resolution]

Real sailors never appear in bright pink new caps. So several years ago when they were being dished out at Cowes weeks we used to take the new ones and hang them on the sunny side of our house and leave them until the next summer. By then they had weathered and acquired the correct patina. still have one or two.

 

[alan_d]

Many years ago, on my first visit to the Caribbean, my eye was caught by a headline in the local paper - Sunsail Mount Gay Regatta. I found myself wondering if straight people would be allowed to compete as well, but of course I would not be that stupid now ....

 

[aquaplane]

I won one on a Sunsail Sporades flotilla regatta, but I lost it at Ranworth somewhere. It was still very red when it went missing.