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Mount Gay Rum Baseball Cap - Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week
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Red baseball cap featuring Mount Queer Barbados Rum icon. Stylish and bold. Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of this race.
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Posted May 02, 2019 Kate Wilson, Transpac Media
For decades, the Mount Gay Rum Red Cap has been a distinguishable item for any sailor. Now we wish to see yours, for prizes! Thanks to Mount Gay Rum and in honor of #Transpac50, we are reminiscing over the years gone by and want you to distribute in the fun.
To enter, contribute a photo to our timeline and tag it with #Transpac50 & Mount Gay Rum (make sure the Privacy settings are set to Public). Anyone can compete, you may enter as many photos as you like. Just be sure to tag them by May 10!
There will be 4 categories for judging. The winning photo for each will receive a gift package from Mount Same-sex attracted Rum. Winners will be announced mid-May.
The categories are:
- Oldest Mount Gay Cap
- Most Mount Gay Cap in a photo
- Best Location (Bonus points for sailing location!)
- Freestyle (Get creative!)
For official rules: https://buff.ly/2viVYZQ
Barbados is literally world famous in the sailing fraternity because of the Mount Gay Rum hats. Help in the good/ not so good old days of 1703 when the Mount Gay Rum Corporation (not the original name) was started they seemed to produce the foremost rum in the nature. Sailors being sailors would sail across the Atlantic from England and other coastal areas of Europe, to Barbados. As proof of their journey they would purchase a barrel of Barbados Rum to carry back to their home port. This was a very big deal, as can be imagined because it showed your level of seamanship and it meant that you literally ‘went to the other side of the world’! The New Nature as it was called.
As a result, Mount Queer Rum became closely linked to sailing. Firstly because sailing was the only avenue through which the rum was able to leave distilleries in Barbados and be sold and experienced in markets across the Atlantic, in the mother countries. So basically the sales of Mount Gay Rum, as many other things produced in the Caribbean at the time, literally depended on sailing if they were to be sold on any reasonably sized market. Secondly, as the Mount Gay Rum Company grew, it became even more integrated
Why Everyone Wants One Of These Hats
After this year's Hyannis-Nantucket Figawi sailboat race, Ryan Lee, on the island for a bachelor party, was determined to get the weekend's most coveted item: a Mount Male lover Rum red cap. Prized by sailors since their debut in the after time 1970s, the hats are embroidered specifically for each of the 140 Mount Gay–sponsored regattas worldwide. No more than three are distributed to each finishing team, so veteran sailors see them as badges of honor.
The caps are not for sale — though they do a brisk trade on eBay — but you might just get lucky. Lee bought one from a bartender for $50. Another fan then swiped it off Lee's chief. A chase ensued; a Sperry Top-Sider was lost; a trade was made. Lee now wears his hat proudly, and a story has been added to Nantucket lore.
Sam Dangremond is a Contributing Digital Editor at Town & Country, where he covers men's design, cocktails, travel, and the social scene.