What Hat? (For winter sailing/motoring/dog walking)

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Any recommendations. Something furry with flop down ear flaps? But are those functional when wet?

Or do you just wear a standard woolly hat, and put your oily hood up?

I prefer to have an actual decent hat because I find hoods a bit of a pain.

But what hat?

TY!
 
Lowe Alpine "Deputy Dawg" jobbie. Bril in the wet, or dry. You can even pull the hood of your oilies up over it and it will make sure the hood turns when you do. As an added benefit , it makes you look completely insane so nobody will ever moor up alongside.
 
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Lowe Alpine "Deputy Dawg" jobbie

[/ QUOTE ] that's the one. Good old Musto do a waterproof outer one that is perfect but insanely expensive in anything other than the sale.
 
Musto one bought years ago for the wet and cold worn perhaps three or four times, Russian naval officers brown /black mink jobbie complete with badge bought in a Moscow flee market several years ago occaisionaly worn at work in the winter unfortunately never on the boat.
 
I've been looking out for a beanie type hat that converts (rolls down) to a balaclava, I'm sure I have seen pics of this somewhere but never seen in a shop.
 
The very hat.

They now do a goretex version, even better than the original.

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And "where is it "(yes I know, on my head) and why might I have been a bit concerned about getting there too early ?
 
Learnt many years ago that best hat under an oilie hood was basic baseball cap. The peak stops the oilie hood dropping down over brow line etc.
I have an upgraded model from that .... a Chelsea hat (present from mum many years ago ..) - very warm.

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and a Russian leather job ....

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Both with drop down fur ear-covering.

The trick about fur ear pads - if rabbit or synthetic they are horrid when damp or wet. Good fur though is fine and doesn't get that dragged through hedge look.
 
I've got one like that - but navy blue. It's brilliant - keeps me warm and dry in all weathers. I got mine from a climbing/walking shop.
 
I have a 'CROAKIES' hat Jacksonville USA. It cost(I thought) a fortune about 16 years ago, I seem to remember £25 from my local chandlery(it was a present). It is very warm, much better than the Loewe Alpine one I use when walking. The only thing I don't like about it, is the peak, which when down you can't see, so I flick it up and look a ***** !! I wear it on the boat, in the garden when cold etc etc.
 
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The very hat.

They now do a goretex version, even better than the original.
And "where is it "(yes I know, on my head) and why might I have been a bit concerned about getting there too early ?

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I think it might be the Sound of Luing although it's so long since I was last there I could be way off. Of greater concern is the evidence that your mainsail has shrunk. Tumble drier on high again?
 
Hi Ken

Not only shrunk but beginning to rip at the cringle, thus the lashing round the boom.

Sound of Hoy from the west: the pilot book (CCC) cautions against trying to enter against the west going ebb especially with the wind against it.

We got there an hour before the turn of the tide,with the wind behind us.

At one point our SOG was below a knot. Not happy.

PM re BM FoF RV

Paul
 
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Sound of Hoy from the west: the pilot book (CCC) cautions against trying to enter against the west going ebb especially with the wind against it.


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Well I wouldn't have recognised it, the only time I've been through there the fog was so thick we could see nothing beyond the bow of the (admittedly large) boat. One man on the radar and one on the wheel and the firts landfall was a caravan on the shore just West of Hamnavoe.

I have a hat like that too. Excellent bit of stuff.
 
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