On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:32:42 GMT, in message

"Roger Long" wrote:

I'm glad to have started a discussion about an important aspect of
seamanship but everyone is taking my original post way too seriously

I'm glad to hear though that other people have their baseball caps
blow off often enough to have to resort to the methods described here.

I was singlehanding home a couple of years ago with a Mount Gay cap to
keep the sun out of my eyes. The wind caught it and it bounced towards
the rail. That was when I found out the training had succeeded because
I didn't jump to try to catch it. I swung around, pulled out a boat
hook, picked it up and put it back on my head. A little later I was up
at the mast dropping the main and the darn thing went off again. I
secured the main, then went looking, but those hats sink pretty
quickly if they are already wet.

A hat halyard with clips at both ends is a good solution for caps you
don't want to lose, but I seem to accumulate hats faster than I can
lose them overboard.

Ryk