Season’s Greetings
Is there anyone out there who is total sold on their sailing gloves. Is there a glove made that serves well in cool and wet climates and doesn’t fall apart after one or two seasons?
Ray Dykstra
Timaru Nui
Brentwood Bay, B.C.
Season’s Greetings 2022 to all Nonsuchers!
Ray,
I’ve had good luck with Gill Championship Long Finger Gloves in wet, windy, foggy and salt spray-swept San Francisco Bay, going on 4 years…
This is my second pair. Very solidly constructed.
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Michael Jabara
Hobbes II - 1995 NS 354
San Rafael, California
Michael: Since you like these so much, I think you should send a pair to us all!!
Joe Valinoti
S/V iL Gatto NS30U #221
Sea Harbour YC
Oriental, NC USA
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[/details]Do they work on touch screens?
I just got some new ones that are the first I’ve had that do but they aren’t specifically sailing gloves.
Paul M
NS30U #211, Sandpiper
Cowichan Bay, B.C.
Would love to do that, Joe, but with the cost of everything so high, I’m just grateful that the wind is still free! 
Merry Christmas!
Michael Jabara
Hobbes II - 1995 NS 354
San Rafael, California
Yes, Mike, the problem is not the wind but the cost of maintaining a vessel.
Joe Valinoti
S/V iL Gatto NS30U #221
Sea Harbour YC
Oriental, NC USA
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[/details]Paul, these particular gloves have the forefinger and thumb open and the other three fingers closed, so the chartplotter works just fine. They also sell traditional sailing gloves with all ends exposed.
Thanks for the information Michael
Ray
Here is a link to a Practical Sailor review of gloves. Not much promising it it.
https://www.practical-sailor.com/personal-gear-apparel/cold-weather-gloves
Here is another link:
https://www.lifeofsailing.com/post/best-winter-sailing-gloves
I have been sailing in a Polar Bear racing series the last two winters. I have yet to find gloves that are warm, waterproof and still allow working the lines. I will be checking out the Gill and theCarhartt.
Mark Powers
Sailing Gloves? Pah! I use these $5.49 Mechanics Gloves from Harbor Freight. Have lasted several seasons. Use them for diving when cleaning the boat hull too. I cut the tips off the fingers on a pair when I need to have gloves that allow more dexterity.
https://www.harborfreight.com/safety/gloves/mechanics-gloves-small-64178.html
Mike
BIANKA
1986 30U
Long Island
biankablog.blogspot.com
Here is a link to a Practical Sailor review of gloves. Not much promising it it.
https://www.practical-sailor.com/personal-gear-apparel/cold-weather-gloves
Here is another link:
https://www.lifeofsailing.com/post/best-winter-sailing-gloves
I have been sailing in a Polar Bear racing series the last two winters. I have yet to find gloves that are warm, waterproof and still allow working the lines. I will be checking out the Gill and theCarhartt.
Mark Powers
May I suggest leather sailing mitts? My mother gave me a pair in the early 1970’s when I was preparing to sail to Bermuda from Tarrytown NY in November. They proved useful then and still are during fitting out in our Toronto springs. They are flexible and let me deal with small screws and pins without having to removing them. She was a practical woman who chose to live afloat with my father when they married. Her reason was that she had always been cold in British houses and pipes froze. She thought she would be more comfortable on a boat. Their first sailing home Nancibelle became one of the little ships evacuating Dunkirk after they had bought a larger yacht to accommodate my arrival on Christmas Day 1937. Before I came on the scene she sent Dad off to have his tonsils out while she had Fortis gutted and refitted her to her design with a stainless galley with novel (for the time sliding doors) and very comfortable accommodation. We lived afloat until the war disrupted our lives. Things were never the same. Her interior design was the subject of an article in Yachting World.
Her arrival on the yachting scene was not welcomed by clubs on the east and south coasts which were sanctuaries for men who never thought they would need facilities for women until she arrived soaking wet after a boisterous passage demanding access to a hot shower or bath. Although she was small they thought it prudent to let her take over the bathroom to have a hot bath or shower. My parents Club was the RCYC at Burnham-on Crouch which had an ultra modern design for the time with all the facilities for both sexes. It is still modern by todays standard. Here she is at the helm of the ketch Fortis.
Meanwhile the sailing mitts are a gift that keeps on giving
John Newell
Mascouche 26 C1
Toronto
Thanks for sharing that, John.
Joe Valinoti
S/V iL Gatto NS30U #221
Sea Harbour YC
Oriental, NC USA
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[/details]Yesterday I learned from my nephew that Vessi, a maker of waterproof foot ware has just introduced a waterproof glove that will work with touch screen devices such as cellphones and GPS. I have not tried these gloves.
https://ca.vessi.com/products/waterproof-knit-gloves-3-0
The last time I went winter racing I used the garden type Atlas gloves described in the previously linked Practical Sailor article. They worked reasonably well, especially when handling wet ropes, and cheap too.
Cheers,
Don
FWIW, these are the ones I got for winter sailing this year. They are cheap, warm, and touch screen friendly. They are basically ski gloves and wouldn’t likely stand up to handling a lot of wet lines for very long but fortunately I sail a Nonsuch and don’t have to do much of that. 
For me gloves are strictly for winter. I’ve never worn gloves for rope handling. Isn’t that what callouses are for?
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We are proponents of using non-marine gloves as a cheap alternative. We have a bunch of Grease Monkey fingerless gloves on the boat (at about $10/pair when we bought, but now $13/pr) and lend them to guests who want them. The pair of Grease Monkey gloves that I always use are on their third season. They will not make it through a fourth.
For cold winter weather sailing, I use gardening gloves with rubber coated fingers for the docking/undocking and then stow those gloves and normally wear a pair of Thininsulate work gloves from Home Depot (at about $15). If it is real cold I pull an old pair of leather ski mittens (bought in the mid-70’s) from which the insulation has dried out over the work gloves.
lloyd herman
Rendezvous, 30U
Port Washington, NY