Fast Rescue Boat Hoodie

The Fast Rescue Boat Hoodie belongs to a small team with an outsized single responsibility: getting a person back out of the water alive. When someone goes over the side, the fast rescue boat is the answer, and the crew in it took the hardest seat on board by choice.

The job is precise and cold. The FRB launches while the ship is still making way. Crew in immersion suits, the coxswain reading the swell on the approach, the bridge holding position and keeping eyes on a casualty they know by name. On deep-sea vessels the nearest outside help is hours over the horizon, so the rescue is whatever the boat crew makes of it.

The hoodie serves the hours around that readiness. Cold-water drill mornings before the immersion suits go on, the warm-down after recovery exercises, night alarms that end as stand-downs and still cost the sleep. Heavyweight fabric for a duty that lives close to cold water by definition.

• 288 g/m2 fabric rewarms boat crews after wet drills
• Kangaroo pocket shelters hands that just handled wet lines
• Three-panel hood covers the neck the drysuit hood chafed
• FRB motif identifies the crew who take the rescue seat

The Fast Rescue Boat Hoodie fits FRB coxswains and crew, davit operators, and the bridge teams who con the recovery. As a seafarer gift, it goes to the shipmate who volunteered for the seat nobody is forced to take.

FRB training has a particular honesty to it. The swell does not pretend, the water temperature does not negotiate, and the recovery either works or gets debriefed hard. People who keep volunteering for that seat tend to be the ones a crew quietly builds itself around.

Heavyweight cotton-face hoodie, 65% ring-spun cotton and 35% polyester, 288 g/m2, three-panel hood, kangaroo pocket.

Somebody takes that seat. This hoodie knows who.

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Produced on demand and handed to the carrier within 1–3 business days. Typical delivery after dispatch: United States 3–7, Europe & UK 3–10, rest of the world 7–25 business days. Free standard shipping on orders over $75 (US), €75 (EU) or £65 (UK). Full details in our Shipping policy.

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