Yacht Wear: Anybody Dress Like This?

[DavidMRea]

Originally Posted by KompetentKrew

The last pic looks very Dartmouth

I've not seen her. Different Dartmouth?

[JC Reefer]

I dress like one of those wooden sailor figurines. Just need the corn cob pipe.

[Mickeyrouse]

Sure, people dress like that. They just aren’t found around boats they’re helping to sail.

[Dave22q]

Some good answers. #2 was funniest.

[boatpoker]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

Why do they seem to wear shoes?

Inbreeding... three toes only and all deformed

[barnakiel]

Yep. No problem with such fancy clothes in my book.


Sailing is not just chartering a boat for two weeks in BVI. It is also the whole lore and history. And the sailing lore and history include shapes and colors of the tradition - jackets (think NYYC), red caps (think Jaques Custeau), Sud-Westers (think Greta Thunder), matelots (think JPG), etc. etc.


And today also colored flipflops and gay bermudas (think Hollywood influences).


Embrace culture. Do not fear. Sailing is not just YM and ARC.


Cheers,
b.

[Dave22q]

Originally Posted by Hudson Force

Once Nancie and I were anchored between Salem and Marblehead, Ma. on a summer day and we watched a man in a dark suit and tie sail to a mooring on board a small sloop and then row off in his dinghy. We failed to come up with any plausible explanation!

not all burials are at sea.

[redhead]

Since we're dredging up the past John Beresford Tipton. Aha! Go look that one up. Of course, I've only read about it in books referencing the Golden Age of Television.... ahem.

[Dsanduril]

With one outlier it is clear that those clothes are only appropriate when paired with teak decks. Since we don’t have teak decks...

[RobertoD]

LittleWing 77 has it right. That's what most serious sailors do as I have for 50 + years. But these ads aren't aimed at sailors - just those who want to look like sailors and well-heeled (pun intended) boat owners. They aren't aimed at us . . . That's just standard Advertising practice. So don't feel badly in your everyday sailing duds.

[waterman46]

My moniker says how I feel about this subject!

[Cabo Jim]

Bond....James Bond

https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.15...-Bare-Feet.jpg

[Cadence]

A Tee shirt and cut off jeans suit me. Going ashore might dress me up a bit not like that
Mike if you ever run across me wearing a cap with scrambled eggs on the brim, shoot me.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by Uricanejack

I thought every one in the Solent did.

You mean you don't

Coming into Lymington a couple of years ago a rather nice 100 footer with glistening varnish woodwork was coming out, travelling slowly with elegance making no wake. The male crew dressed in dark blue jackets with white trousers, the ladies in matching dark blue jackets and white pleated skirts. The ensign on the stern a white one. I smiled and gave a nod to the immaculately turned out yacht and crew, receiving a smile in return.

I rather like Dick Durham's (UK sailing Journalist) dress code.

Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH3p...=MyClassicBoat

[jmh2002]

J-Class and Classic yacht sailing back in the day

The "cruising couple" are Tom and Phyllis Sopwith in 1937 aboard Endeavor / Endeavor II in the 1930s

More here: https://www.google.com/search?q=j-cl...w=1182&bih=625



















America's Cup racing, 1903, with the crew on the rail: