Which sailing winter jacket look for?

[Graemsay]

Rapha do a Tweed softshell jacket for cyclists. What you need to do is convince someone like Musto to do a range of sailing wear in that fabric.

There used to be a company in Scotland called Slioch that produced bespoke Gore Tex mountain clothing. If they were still open then you might have been able to persuade them to copy a vintage sailing jacket in modern materials.

Cioch offer a similar service, but I'm not sure if the Nikwax Analogy fabric would be suitable for offshore use.

 

[Dodo]

Royal Navy Ventile smock

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58196&page=1

really nice smock but i can't understand where to find one like this in navy, as sass seems to be out of stock and they sell only camouflage smock!!

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

really nice smock but i can't understand where to find one like this in navy, as sass seems to be out of stock and they sell only camouflage smock!!

http://cgi.ebay.es/Royal-Navy-RN-Ve..._Goods_Sports_Clothing_LE&hash=item43a62dce9a

http://www.heritageresearch.co.uk/site/collection/mt-rainier-jacket/prod_634.html

 

[Graemsay]

If by SASS you're referring to Special Air Sea Services then it's worth pointing out that they make a lot of their products up to order, in much the same way that our friends at Aero do.

As a suggestion, why not source a few metres of Ventile, and see if they'll run up a smock from your own fabric?

 

[Zemke Fan]

Photos taken yesterday. First sail of the season!! (We sail from Annapolis Landing Marina, Annapolis, MD.)

Not vintage (as mentioned before), but a great jacket nonetheless:

Captain Fred.

And... the lovely Mrs. H.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Looking great, Fred & Helen!

 

[416rigby]

Shoulda waited another day----

A while ago on "Superbowl Sunday" in the Sea of Cortez. For all you cruising sailors, we should have waited another day to go hahahahahahaha

 

[Zemke Fan]

Looking great, Fred & Helen!

Thanks, Mike! How you been, man?

 

[Zemke Fan]

Look at this hack from another forum: