The problem: The wind is blowing; your hat / cap flies off your head into the water while sailing. With a small boat you may be able to come about and retrieve it fairly rapidly, but if you have a larger boat that is slower, it takes some time to retrace your steps and get to the hat / cap, that is now filled with water,and in many cases sinks before you can save it. Another hat has drowned. The Pusser solution was to have two loops of cord on the hat. One in back of your head at your neck; the other under your chin. Now if the hat wanted to go flying the neck or chin tether kept it in place. There is another solution to the problem: add a PFD to the hat / cap. Ping pong balls make great floats on hats; almost weightless; don't deteriorate in the sunshine. Use pieces of your 3 lb onion bagnet as raw material for containing the ping pong ball (s). Make a small net enclosing the ping pong ball (s) and sew it to the brim of a hat, or the top of a cap. It may look funny to landlubbers as you stroll around the waterfront, but you can explain that it prevents hats from visiting Davey Jones and never returning to where they belong; your head. If you want to carry out the nautical theme, paint the ping pong balls red and green and sew them on the brim of your hat in the proper positions. A white one at the stern of the hat should also be considered.Since you are under leg power on shore, a steaming light at the bow would not be out of place. Be nautical; be original Ciao, Connie
Haha, great idea. Green, red and white ping pong balls. How about just sewing them via the onion net to the inside crown of the hat? Of course a water activated strobe attached to the hat would help you find it at night. Then too a water activated whistle (do they make those?) would help too. How about a red dye marker. I know they have those. No more lost $90 hats. You betcha. Remember, when you go sailing leave nothing but wakes and take nothing but pictures. On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote:
The problem:
The wind is blowing; your hat / cap flies off your head into the water while sailing.
With a small boat you may be able to come about and retrieve it fairly rapidly, but if you have a larger boat that is slower, it takes some time to retrace your steps and get to the hat / cap, that is now filled with water,and in many cases sinks before you can save it.
Another hat has drowned.
The Pusser solution was to have two loops of cord on the hat. One in back of your head at your neck; the other under your chin. Now if the hat wanted to go flying the neck or chin tether kept it in place.
There is another solution to the problem: add a PFD to the hat / cap.
Ping pong balls make great floats on hats; almost weightless; don't deteriorate in the sunshine.
Use pieces of your 3 lb onion bagnet as raw material for containing the ping pong ball (s). Make a small net enclosing the ping pong ball (s) and sew it to the brim of a hat, or the top of a cap.
It may look funny to landlubbers as you stroll around the waterfront, but you can explain that it prevents hats from visiting Davey Jones and never returning to where they belong; your head.
If you want to carry out the nautical theme, paint the ping pong balls red and green and sew them on the brim of your hat in the proper positions. A white one at the stern of the hat should also be considered.Since you are under leg power on shore, a steaming light at the bow would not be out of place.
Be nautical; be original
Ciao,
Connie
On Oct 3, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote:
The wind is blowing; your hat / cap flies off your head into the water while sailing.
With a small boat you may be able to come about and retrieve it fairly rapidly, but if you have a larger boat that is slower, it takes some time to retrace your steps and get to the hat / cap, that is now filled with water,and in many cases sinks before you can save it.
Another hat has drowned.
My father lost his hat once while we were sailing a rented boat. He was never known for luxuriant hair and the hat was the only thing between him and sunburn, possibly heatstroke. After digging through everything available on board he finished that trip wearing a binnacle cover on his head. It wasn’t stylish but, I gotta say, it was a perfect fit.
Did that allow him to find North easier? Heat stroke is NO joke though. I have used an under shirt. Fortunate because I had no binnacle cover. Fair winds, Tom B On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:51 PM, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org> wrote:
On Oct 3, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote:
The wind is blowing; your hat / cap flies off your head into the water while sailing.
With a small boat you may be able to come about and retrieve it fairly rapidly, but if you have a larger boat that is slower, it takes some time to retrace your steps and get to the hat / cap, that is now filled with water,and in many cases sinks before you can save it.
Another hat has drowned.
My father lost his hat once while we were sailing a rented boat. He was never known for luxuriant hair and the hat was the only thing between him and sunburn, possibly heatstroke. After digging through everything available on board he finished that trip wearing a binnacle cover on his head.
It wasn’t stylish but, I gotta say, it was a perfect fit.
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