Compo Yacht Club Hat | The Commodore's Cap | Vintage Print Martini Burgee Cotton Dad Cap | Preppy Nautical Washed Baseball Hat | Est. 1920
Compo Yacht Club Hat | The Commodore's Cap | Vintage Print Martini Burgee Cotton Dad Cap | Preppy Nautical Washed Baseball Hat | Est. 1920
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Ahoy, polloi! The Compo Yacht Club — Westport's "finest institution since 1920", founded the very week the taps ran dry — presents the Commodore's Cap. And before you ask: yes, you qualify. At a club where no member has ever been observed sailing, everybody holds the rank. The cap is the commission.
The burgee — martini, olive to windward — printed soft and low on enzyme-washed 100% cotton twill, sun-faded straight from the factory, the way the club's been doing it since the seventies. The flag arrives already weathered, like it flew a few good seasons over the clubhouse bar before retiring to your head. Unstructured six-panel, curved bill, brass slider in the back: the silhouette that never needed improving, in seven washed coastal colors that have all clearly had a summer.
Rated for the seawall at all hours, the raw bar, dawn dog patrol, the farmers market, and a three-hour tour of the harbor conducted entirely from a folding chair — brim down, weather rough, resolve unsinkable. It is the club's official position that a member is out of uniform without it. It is the club's other official position that there is no uniform. Both are strictly enforced.
For beach walkers, boat owners, boat wanters, brim-tippers, gift-getters, and anyone whose yacht exists primarily in conversation. Prefer your burgee in thread? The embroidered edition flies in the ship's store. This one's for members who like their flags pre-faded.
The fine print, read like a tide chart: Comfort Colors 8.5 oz 100% cotton enzyme-washed twill, unstructured six-panel, self-fabric closure with metal slider, adjustable, seven colors. Machine wash cold. Printed to order in the USA; profits support hunger relief.
Welcome aboard, Commodore. Dues are one olive — hats off when you pay.
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