Warm gloves

When I moved to the coast and started sailing year round, I went into the local commercial fishing shop (Where REAL commercial fishermen go) and I asked them "What do Alaska Crab fishermen wear?"
The answer is a heavy duty rubber glove with a liner. The beauty of this is the price. The rubber gloves are about $8 so I bought a few pairs. And then I went to another store and bought polypro liners for another $8 a pair. This combination is great when it's raining or splashing. If the liners get wet, I just swap out a new pair.

For days when it's not raining, I wear the new polypro gloves with a rubber palm that are available at most hardware stores for $12 for a pack of 6 pairs. Once again if they get wet I just swap out a new pair.

Years ago I had a $70 pair of "sailing gloves." They were absolutely useless once they got wet... and no matter what they claim on the package, if you are pulling wet lines on a wet day, anything other than pure rubber gloves will get wet.
 
Work them hard, wear them out, buy a new pair !
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Exactly, and if you buy a few pairs you can change them when they get wet. As I mentioned above, you can buy exactly the same thing from any hardware store at $12 for a pack of 6 pairs.
 
Yacht gloves are a waste of money, IMHO.

Cheap leather rigger gloves are good for most of the year, even when wet. For very cold conditions Thinsulate gloves with old climbing (lined and waxed cotton) overmitts usually suffice.
 
Foolish Muse said:
When I moved to the coast and started sailing year round, I went into the local commercial fishing shop (Where REAL commercial fishermen go) and I asked them "What do Alaska Crab fishermen wear?"
The answer is a heavy duty rubber glove with a liner. The beauty of this is the price. The rubber gloves are about $8 so I bought a few pairs. And then I went to another store and bought polypro liners for another $8 a pair. This combination is great when it's raining or splashing. If the liners get wet, I just swap out a new pair.

For days when it's not raining, I wear the new polypro gloves with a rubber palm that are available at most hardware stores for $12 for a pack of 6 pairs. Once again if they get wet I just swap out a new pair.

Years ago I had a $70 pair of "sailing gloves." They were absolutely useless once they got wet... and no matter what they claim on the package, if you are pulling wet lines on a wet day, anything other than pure rubber gloves will get wet.
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I recently undertook a passage around the south coast of Iceland and brought with me a £70 pair of 100% “waterproof gloves” that were sodden after a couple hours. Taking the advice from the Foolish Muse above I visited the commercial fisherman’s chandler on the wonderful island of Vestmannjaer and bought a pair of lined fisherman’s gloves that kept my hands toasty and dry from the rain and seas on passage to Scotland and down the Irish Sea. The only down side was condensation did start to build up over a few watches as the liners were not removable. So next time I will buy just the rubber glove and use contact gloves as a liner, which can be dried between watches. The gloves were similar to the ones at the following link, other brands are available for extreme conditions. https://www.guycotten.co.uk/bn30-blue-thermo-gloves-c-32_154_283/
 
parsifal said:
Years ago I worked for a farmer who had been a biplane pilot in the RAF. He told me that pilots used to wear silk gloves inside their leather mittens
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They also wore silk scarves around their necks, partly to reduce the friction on the neck from constantly turning their heads looking around and partially because the little rag they carried to wipe the oil off their goggles often got lost either in the cockpit or the slipstream. None of which will help you keep your hands warm but I thought I'd throw it in there...
 
Since the thread has already been revived and dragged off topic... My grandfather flew Lincoln bombers in the early 50s. These were equipped only with a very rudimentary blown air heating system—he remembers once turning this on and receiving a gout of rusty cold water up one leg. During map-matching trials, flown at 15,000 feet in January (the aircraft was unpressurised, so this was on oxygen), the crew, who, being in a "closed" aircraft were not issued with proper flying suits, used to wear their pyjamas under a couple of layers of warm clothing...don't know about the hands though.
 
BelleSerene said:
Presumably you wire them to a cigarette lighter plug so they can draw the 1.5A they require from a socket in the cockpit?
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We drive a Lomax three-wheeler for fun. It came with a pair of electrically heated gloves that plug into a permanently mounted jack plug. I have yet to use them, as so far I have managed to drive in UK in spring and autumn and Spain in winter.
 
First job after school was as a factory butcher so it never got over 4 deg C, we were issued with a pair of marigolds and knitted fingerless mittens very cheap and actually quite effective.
I will try the idea of the fishermans gloves and a thermal liner pair underneath :encouragement:
 
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