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    Posted: 04 Mar 21 at 8:55pm
My history of gloves are; 
I sailed in builders gloves for years, they're cheap and grippy but don't keep your hands warm during the winter when wet. 
So I moved to all weather neoprene gloves, they're fairly grippy, fairly warm but not particularly tightly fitting. They're good if your sheets are wet as they don't transfer through the gloves much but on a really cold day the wind chill gets through them. 
I then went for thermal waterproof building gloves. These are brilliant, so warm your hands sweat, they're tightly fitting and they're completely waterproof up to the wrists so unless you submerge your hands they'l stay completely dry (also cheap as chips!!).  The only draw back to these are that they are bulky, fine when sailing the 400 as the mainsheet needs to be gripped hard as the loads are so high on it but when I moved to the 200 you need much more feel. 
So I started sailing without gloves for the first time ever. The feel you get makes the boat so much faster in the light stuff and through the tacks rather than trying to let the mainsheet slip through your hands like you're wearing a pair of mittens, I could now let it glide out seamlessly. 
This was fine for the summer and most of the winter but now I'm sailing nearly every weekend from November to April (at least I hope to be this year!!!) there are a couple of really cold days where if I don't wear gloves I can't stay out for the full schedule of races. 

What gloves to get? They need to be warm and waterproof while still being able to retain a lot of dexterity. I thought I had solved it when someone showed me a pair of their Rooster aquapro gloves which were miles to small for me. I ordered a pair in the right size and after trying them on they don't have the snugness I thought they would. The quality looks great but they just don't have the right length to width ratio for my long skinny fingers.

What other options do I have? Have spent hours trying to find the right gloves and am pulling my hair out. 

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Edited by ClubRacer - 04 Mar 21 at 8:55pm
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There will be as many different answers and preferences as there are forum members. Gloves are very much a personal thing, especially if you have longer fingers etc. I find the Rooster AquaPro pretty good for my hands - and my hands get cold very easily - even in summer my fingers can go white and numb - I think its called Reynaulds desease. However, its always a compromise - warmth vs dexterity.

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I've been using Rooster polypro glove liner under a normal pair of sailing gloves and it keeps my hand pretty warm, however I will probably go for the hot hands under the same gloves next winter as having Reynauds too now.

Certainly the polypro ones add virtually no bulk under the other gloves and it feels no different to sailign without them (under the gloves)
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One option you could try that we used many moons ago was a set of marigold washing up gloves with a set of normal sailing gloves (fingerless or 3/4 length) over the top. This keeps your hands dry, especially if you use some tape around the cuff or tuck them into your wetsuit sleeve but you need the sailing glove to stop them getting ripped up.
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I use Showa 451 work gloves (or similar) size 9 which suits my hands bought bulk on ebay.  I chop the thumb and forefinger off them in the summer.  For frostbite sailing I leave them intact but if really cold put on surgical gloves underneath.

This gives me a good combination of fit, dexterity and protection which has worked well against Europe mainsheets, RS400 and Etchells jibs and kites.  I usually get about 12 races out of a pair, which if scaled up to the longevity of real sailing gloves works out a lot cheaper.

You can get sailing wear branded "builders' gloves" but they don't last any longer than the cheapo ones.
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I have spent forty five years seeking a working pair of gloves, I spent twnety years working for a company that makes watersports gloves, indeed I even became the best salesman of Goretex Gloves in Europe for a couple of seasons and my advice? Don't bother, none of them work and they all end up ripped off and in the bottom of the boat, bare hands, go through hot hurts and mtfu is all there is, sorry. (If you want any performance sensitivity that is)

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I wear Gill neoprene gloves when it's cold and, ATM, Gill fingerless gloves when it's not. I never found a  pair of gloves that were any use for windsurfing though.

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Originally posted by iGRF

... my advice? Don't bother, none of them work and they all end up ripped off and in the bottom of the boat, bare hands, go through hot hurts and mtfu is all there is, sorry. (If you want any performance sensitivity that is)

Are you sure you are iGRF? 'Cos I am agreeing with you again.

Most gloves seem to hold water against your hands, making them colder as it sucks the heat out of you; without, the water disappears.

also, when the gloves fail, the soft skin then exposed is really not going to like it. Better tough hands.

However, I'm not to looking forward to the likely aftermath of my hands ripping up during 4 days of sailing over Easter, after they've done damn-all except soften up for months.

edit: because the formatting of paragraphs is still going wrong


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As several others, haven't bought sailing gloves for several years now. Settled on these quite thin but for me an ideal balance of grip and feel. Tried the Showa ones I've seen favoured by some but for me too grippy to slip the main and adjust hand position on tiller ext. (Contender sometimes only have one hand for each adjustment). Nitrile gloves underneath sometimes if really cold. Having working hands I could probably sail without gloves most of the time but they keep the wedding ring safer than for ever putting it off and on. Buy a multipack which lasts for a couple of years and I also use them for some work jobs.
 
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I use same ones dodifferent, but with fingerless gel cycling gloves over the top.
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