Gloves...grrr...

Iain is one of natures horders, look in his garage and you will find fittings off of his first wooden garden shed of a fireball, that just might come on handy one day.

In fact I bet you still have that rod forestay that is virtually impossible to rig hanging behind the shed door

Hence he still has every pair of sailing gloves, knackered or not, just in case...

in all fairness, sailing the blonde will chew gloves, and those yellow gill ones were the hardest wearing I ever came across until switching to the builders gloves

Why do you keep buying the same type ... experiment a bit ...

You should try actually holding on to the rope 

Or may be stop rigging your boat on it's side so the ropes don't get sand in them and act like a Black and Decker Power File!


Edited by Jack Sparrow

In Buxton (Derbyshire) there is a warehouse called "The Discount Centre". Here one can buy almost anything, plastic flowers, diamond cutting disks (only 30 bob) and builders gloves at £1.00 per pair. What's more you can buy pink ones for girls blue ones for boys and yellow ones for real sons of toil, like myself. Oh, and grey that look like Typhoon for those of you who wish to pretend that you spent more than a pound. The only problem with this handwear is that they are easily discarded and mess up my families area of the boat park. As to not wearing gloves at all, my boy does that and seems to manage quite well whereas my knackered old hands worn out by the building trade and old age need the comfort of gloves. Goodnight.

Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull Originally posted by turnturtle Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull I never seem to be able to find new pairs though, they always seem to go missing there are only three explanations for this alex... 1) you're a careless git, but it doesn't matter 'cos your rentals will buy you another pair 2) smight has been stealing them again 3) you have a very weird neighbour with a dodgy hand garment fetish obviously the only solutions are a) beat yourself up b) beat your brother up c) beat up the whole damn neighbourhood until one of the bastards confessess Nope, I have come to the conclusion that as i see Smight and his crew wearing them. That this is why there is never any when i come to need a new pair

1. The gloves are as much mine as they are yours

2. dad gave rory the gloves not me