Hands take a beating while sailing, from chafe, pressure points, cuts and cold. Hard heads will say “you just need to let the calluses build up,” but my other hobbies are rock climbing and cycling, plus ice climbing in the winter and all of the other stuff DIYers do. Combined it’s quite enough. I’ve seen the arthritic hands old carpenters wear, with appendages that resemble ironwood roots more than fingers. No thanks. Like shoes, fit is everything, but these are some that have worked for us.
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