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Default Baseball caps for sailing?

Ruby Vee wrote:
On 2006-09-02 07:04:13 -0400, "Roger Long" said:

I like wearing baseball caps when not spending long periods in
intense sun (then, it's my big floppy canvas sailing hat, I always
know which way to put it on because the mildew goes on the right)
but the frequency with which they blow off is maddening. It makes
for great MOB practice and I'm proud to say I've never left one
behind. I also have a fair collection from boats I've designed,
Titanic Expeditions, etc.

My constant running and boat maneuvering to retrieve wayward caps has
given me a bit of a complex. I can't recall ever in my life seeing
someone else lose theirs. I've suspected for years that there might
be something strange about the shape of my head and I suddenly
realized that this photo from my recent cruise confirms it.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/06C23.htm

What do you think? Do I need to retire my collection of caps? Was
there never any hope of my being a professional ball player, aside
from not being able to hit, catch, or run?

If your hats blow off, please let me know, I'll feel much better.


I lose mine, even when I go through the trouble of threading my pony
tail through the hole in the back, tightening the cap and even putting
a hood over it! The hood falls off, the cap blows away and my husband
(with his baseball cap securely on his head) laughs at me and tells me
we can't go back and we'd never catch it anyway. I've decided that
there's probably two kinds of people: those like my husband whose cap
wouldn't DARE blow off, and those like me whole cap will blow off no
matter what lengths I go to to secure it!

Ruby


You sure sail in some rough weather. Perhaps a call to the NY Yankees for
advice would be in order?

Dennis.