Favorite warm weather head gear?

Advice
#10

How about the obvious?
A straw “boater”.



http://www.historicgeorgetown.org/images/newswin06/ronneelyp1.jpg



As far as the ladies are concerned, you’ll get more action than an Italian midshipman on shore leave in New Orleans. …Okay, failing that, you could round up 3 other losers with similar taste in headgear and varying vocal ranges and belt out bawdy harmonies between rounds 'til the wee hours.

#11

Tilley,esp if you haqve a big head
like me and FE.

#12

Kavu man!
Looks goofy, even more than the Tilley. But it works!



Unless there’s a LOT of wind.



http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2506661300040906646CZeGNW

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2622026770040906646JzYone

#13

Not my favorite, but looks effective:

– Last Updated: Mar-06-10 12:29 PM EST –

I can even imagine myself getting one! Yeah, I don't give a crap how I look when paddling.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1180955331052885347HyXngA

I guess this might be the same hat as in the photos linked in redmond's post.

#14

thanks!
Some awesome replies… lol.



The Tilley does look like the winner, but my wife is out shopping now, if she finds something that has a wide brim like the tilley, that doesn’t make her want to divorce me, she is going to pick it up.



If she doesn’t find one, I’ll get a Tilley online.

It looks like there are a few good styles to choose from too.

#15

Ball cap - I don’t leave home without it
but it has to be a freebie, and then it doesn’t become my favorite until it is so faded that the color doesn’t show and the visor has bits of worn thread hanging off.



The day I pay for a hat is the day I’ll stop paddling, and I would ask someone to shoot me before I donned a Tilley!



Cheers,

JackL

#16

using a Little League field nm

#17

a cap with a brim …
… the brim is to help with the sun in the eyes … and sunglasses .

#18

Safety Orange Bonnie
Hunter safety color is available from Cabelas or Bass pro I think. You would not beleive how visible I become when I put it on!

#19

This is what I wear

– Last Updated: Mar-06-10 7:50 PM EST –

You can't beat the price, visibility is HIGH, even on radar and nice wide brim for sun protection. I think the people in my paddling club are jealous as nobody will paddle with me since I got it.

http://www.windycitynovelties.com/11822p/giant-12-inch-high-yellow-foam-cowboy-hat.html

...and this for night paddling...

http://www.windycitynovelties.com/212312p/l-e-d-viking-helmet.html?ProdRec=Yes

#20

Tilley
Ditto!

#21

Although I hesitate to disagree with
my elders,ball caps killed my father-in-law.He lived at the beach for 20 years and the skin cancer on his temples became so bad he progressed from having it frozen, to having the skin shaved until it bled,to radiation.They thought the radiation caused the brain tumor that killed him.

Most of us fair skinned people need a full brim.

#22

I have this one…
This would be my vote, without giving into the tilley. I’ve got one. Stays put and dries quickly.



http://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/sombriolet_sun_hat.html

#23

Yes, but he was probably 110
When he died!



cheers,

JackL

#24

I’m with you jack!
I have a couple of the columbia ball caps with the neck guards that are awesome

#25

I am getting one of these…
http://www.waresdirect.com/products/Commercial-Products/Ergodyne/Chillits-6615206625?trackURL=froogle


#26

Another vote . . .
. . . for boonie hat, cheap, effective.

#27

Birth-middle age-Tilley-ED- dimentia

#28

Can you get a boonie in something other
than camo or army green? Maybe sentimental green or passion yellow? Bill

#29

Yes
My favorite is black. Navy blue looks good, too. Tan. Lots of colors.