Neil Farley’s Favorite Cap

We hate to generalize, but it’s probably safe to say that a majority of women love to shop for clothes and accessories, and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing the same outfit or single item of clothing two days in a row.

Most guys are different — especially sailors. They can often be seen wearing the same comfortable pair of jeans, board shorts or ball cap day after day. Take Neil Farley, for example, of the Florida-based Chuck Paine 48 Attitude. In 2010, he won a coral-pink Latitude 38 hat at our Pacific Puddle Jump sendoff party at Panama’s Balboa YC. And, as his wife, Kathy explains, "It’s his favorite hat, and he has worn it all over the Pacific islands, in New Zealand and the Australian outback — to death, literally." Not wanting to see her shipmate fall into a funk with the threadbare-cap blues, she wrote us to plead for a replacement. 

With a story like that, how could we refuse? So we arranged to get Neil a new cap — this time turquoise blue — now that Attitude is back in Central America. 

But now we’re curious: Neil must have sailed at least 10,000 miles with that sun-bleached cotton cap. Can anyone out there top that? Email us here.