Sailing trousers

[Twister_Ken]

Another vote for the Musto Evolution Technical Trousers: spray splashes dry quickly, reinforced patches on knees and bum, very useful large pockets. In the summer I wear the shorts version of the same thing.

Aren't those the clown's trousers with multi-coloured patches?

 

[Sans Bateau]

I was thinking of a pair of these, I can get them cheap, do you think they will be OK?

 

[Twister_Ken]

I was thinking of a pair of these, I can get them cheap, do you think they will be OK?

That levitating feature would save you the cost of a lifejacket and even a liferaft

 

[davidaprice]

Aren't those the clown's trousers with multi-coloured patches?

Those are the ones, yes. I expect they look even sillier from behind, but I've never had an opportunity to check!

 

[prv]

I was on a mooring at Gigha on a very hot day with stuff all wind this summer. I was intrigued to see a couple of big yachts arrive with their crews fully outfitted in waterproof jackets and trousers.

See that quite often in the Solent too. I assume it's training boats, where they've issued everybody with school oilies at the beginning of the week (fair enough) and then the students have assumed that this is what you wear for sailing at all times.

I used to quite enjoy giving them a casual wave as I went past in Kindred Spirit in shorts and a wide-brimmed hat on the back of my head, one bare foot hooked over the tiller

Pete

 

[bitbaltic]

As others, usually a pair of craghoppers. Not more than 15 quid if got from TK Maxx, last ages, dry quick, can zip off as shorts. Everything bar decent oilies can be perfectly well sourced from knock-down camping outlets and it's mad paying the 'marque' prices for fleeces/shorts/tees etc etc.

 

[Simondjuk]

I was on a mooring at Gigha on a very hot day with stuff all wind this summer. I was intrigued to see a couple of big yachts arrive with their crews fully outfitted in waterproof jackets and trousers.

See that quite often in the Solent too. I assume it's training boats, where they've issued everybody with school oilies at the beginning of the week (fair enough) and then the students have assumed that this is what you wear for sailing at all times.

I used to quite enjoy giving them a casual wave as I went past in Kindred Spirit in shorts and a wide-brimmed hat on the back of my head, one bare foot hooked over the tiller

Pete

Along with the cheery waves, we also got pointed at and probably laughed about by quite a few crews of local boats leaving Camaret as we were arriving this summer. It was about 8am, the temperature was probably in the mid teens centigrade, bright sunshine and a beautiful morning. They were all wearing shorts and t-shirts. We were wearing full foulies. The difference being that we had been shrouded in drenching sea mist from dark the night before until less than an hour previously, the moisture from which was still dripping off the main onto us, it had been an unseasonally cold night, and we had been on the go for 60 hours so were probably a little tired and more susceptible to feeling cold.

We provided much the same amusement to the boats making an early start out of Lymington, on a similar sort of morning, when we finished the reciprocal leg back to the Solent.

One person's mild morning is sometimes another person's warming up period from a cold, damp night.

 

[sailorbaz]

I wear shorts in summer and a pair of Aldi ski pants in winter - they're warm and dry quickly if they get wet.
Sailorbaz

 

[Ru88ell]

I wear shorts in summer and a pair of Aldi ski pants in winter - they're warm and dry quickly if they get wet.
Sailorbaz

You have Aldi in Aus? Have you tried the Cassoulet?

 

[Seajet]

Along with the cheery waves, we also got pointed at and probably laughed about by quite a few crews of local boats leaving Camaret as we were arriving this summer. It was about 8am, the temperature was probably in the mid teens centigrade, bright sunshine and a beautiful morning. They were all wearing shorts and t-shirts. We were wearing full foulies. The difference being that we had been shrouded in drenching sea mist from dark the night before until less than an hour previously, the moisture from which was still dripping off the main onto us, it had been an unseasonally cold night, and we had been on the go for 60 hours so were probably a little tired and more susceptible to feeling cold.

We provided much the same amusement to the boats making an early start out of Lymington, on a similar sort of morning, when we finished the reciprocal leg back to the Solent.

One person's mild morning is sometimes another person's warming up period from a cold, damp night.

We found this on a sailing course, after a night sail in winter we were all tired and wearing tons of clothes, until our very experienced instructor advised us to ditch the oilies and get some sun; we were insulating ourselves the wrong way, keeping in the cold - it took will power to remove ones' outer kit, but he was right.

 

[Simondjuk]

We found this on a sailing course, after a night sail in winter we were all tired and wearing tons of clothes, until our very experienced instructor advised us to ditch the oilies and get some sun; we were insulating ourselves the wrong way, keeping in the cold - it took will power to remove ones' outer kit, but he was right.

Absolutely, but best to stay dry for the transitional period until the boat has stopped raining on you and everything you sit on or brush against soaking you.

 

[Keen_Ed]

Don't wear trouser. Shorts - quick dry or waterproof, then long-johns and shorts, and then insulated mid layer, finally long johns and midlayer

 

[robp]

Blue Harbour chinos from M&S. Well, it's nautical, innit?

Exactly!

 

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Craghoppers usually. Comfortable and quick-drying.

+1

 

[JumbleDuck]

One person's mild morning is sometimes another person's warming up period from a cold, damp night.

In my Gigha case it was about 5pm at the end of a swelteringly hot day.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Don't wear trouser. Shorts - quick dry or waterproof, then long-johns and shorts, and then insulated mid layer, finally long johns and midlayer

Shorts - long johns - shorts - "insulated midlayer" - long johns - "midlayer". Six layers? Going to the toilet must be fun.

 

[prv]

One person's mild morning is sometimes another person's warming up period from a cold, damp night.

Sure, but it seems unlikely to be the case if you're chasing a fender and bucket around opposite the Hamble oil jetty

Pete

 

[prv]

Shorts - long johns - shorts - "insulated midlayer" - long johns - "midlayer". Six layers? Going to the toilet must be fun.

I think they're different combinations for increasingly cold weather, not a list of layers all worn at once!

The "long johns and shorts" combination must be a sight to behold, though

Pete

 

[Fantasie 19]

Do you buy posh proper high tech sailing trousers, pink Captain Curry's, whatever you turn up at the marina in or get something from the charity shop?

None of the above..... trousers from Screwfix (lots of pockets, tough as old boots, and change fro £20) and the boat's not in a marina...

 

[JumbleDuck]

The "long johns and shorts" combination must be a sight to behold, though

Super, man.