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My Tilley (which I bought 5 or 6 years ago) came out of the washing machine with the crown half torn off.

I have just received a brand new one worth £85 under their lifetime guarantee.

That's service! Also they are superb to wear.
 
+1. They replaced mine at half price after I lost it overboard. Excellent service.
I probably could have recovered it but we were the lead boat in a race and I had to decide whether to win the race or go back for my hat.
 
A highlight of a visit to Dartmouth last winter was finding a lovely little shop that did boating sewing - bags etc - AND sold Tilley hats. Great range of colours and sizes. The wife and I each came out with new , smart ones that actually fitted. Very dashing!!
One question though: with Brexit imminent is it disloyal to the UK to keep some Euros in the crown? We sail mostly in the Med.
 
Praxinoscope said:
+1. They replaced mine at half price after I lost it overboard. Excellent service.
I probably could have recovered it but we were the lead boat in a race and I had to decide whether to win the race or go back for my hat.
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Me too. You only get one half-price replacement though - they come with the faux "insurance policy" removed from the booklet in the crown pocket ;)

In our case we failed to recover it because the person detailed to watch and point didn't have his contacts in, didn't think to tell anyone he couldn't really see anything outside the guardrail, and just sat there vaguely pointing into the distance until we asked how far away the hat he was looking at was...

Pete
 
Has anybody tried the Tilley Beau Geste?

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I bought mine in 1993 and has protected my head from all weathers on every continent except Antarctica. It finally fell apart this summer and was replaced FOC, no quibble. If only Tilley made foul weather clothing for yachties.
 
I would dearly liked to have had a Tilley, but my wife's face when I tried one on told me that it was a step too far.
 
The problem with the insurance thing is you have to send your old one off to them.


My Original is now getting pretty holy, but it’s got 25 years of memories...
 
Oh dear Johnalison, so you had to sacrifice effectiveness for perceived lack of pose value. :(
I got my first Tilley about 27 years ago; it was a white cotton job. Lasted a few years and then started to disintegrate. When the next one did the same I sent it back to the Tilley folk in Canada - they were very impressed by how a Tilley could become so trashed, so quickly, and naturally (I did nothing to hasten it's demise) in the tropics. And they sent me a new one.
When that one (or probably it's successor) bit the dust I finally ordered a nylon & polyester LTM3 Tilley - this was about 10 years ago.
https://www.tilley.com/us_en/ltm3-airflo-hat.html
It seems to be rot proof and is still going strong; I also later bought a sombrero type with a wider brim which is very effective - it is like having your own mini umbrella overhead. Useful against rain as well.
I also have an Aussie bush hat which is about 15 years old now and pretty much indestructible.
 
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johnalison said:
I would dearly liked to have had a Tilley, but my wife's face when I tried one on told me that it was a step too far.
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D'you think your wife simply objects to hats?

I used to have a nice Panama, but it didn't last through two adventurously boozy summers. It wouldn't survive an Osprey encounter.

I think I've been confusing Tilley with 'Ghillie' hats, the ones with twigs and bits of moss sewn on to disguise the 'sporting' wearer.

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photodog said:
My Original is now getting pretty holy...
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I don't think my other half would put up with me wearing a holy hat.

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oldharry said:
Very. I never wear socks with my sandals, though I will admit to the beard!
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All this talk of sandals & hats has got me humming the Subterranean Homesick Blues. Desperately trying to remember some of the words before the wife gets up this morning, so I can p,,ss her off with a serenade !!!
Then she might send me out in my shed to play.:encouragement:

A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten
Don't wear sandals, Can't afford the scandal

Anybody want to mention bad coughs & trench coats( Musto fans please), or got a pump with a broken handle? Or perhaps just plain out of work:ambivalence:
 
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