The problem: The wind is blowing; your hat / cap flies off your head into the water while sailing. With a small boat you may be able to come about and retrieve it fairly rapidly, but if you have a larger boat that is slower, it takes some time to retrace your steps and get to the hat / cap, that is now filled with water,and in many cases sinks before you can save it. Another hat has drowned. The Pusser solution was to have two loops of cord on the hat. One in back of your head at your neck; the other under your chin. Now if the hat wanted to go flying the neck or chin tether kept it in place. There is another solution to the problem: add a PFD to the hat / cap. Ping pong balls make great floats on hats; almost weightless; don't deteriorate in the sunshine. Use pieces of your 3 lb onion bagnet as raw material for containing the ping pong ball (s). Make a small net enclosing the ping pong ball (s) and sew it to the brim of a hat, or the top of a cap. It may look funny to landlubbers as you stroll around the waterfront, but you can explain that it prevents hats from visiting Davey Jones and never returning to where they belong; your head. If you want to carry out the nautical theme, paint the ping pong balls red and green and sew them on the brim of your hat in the proper positions. A white one at the stern of the hat should also be considered.Since you are under leg power on shore, a steaming light at the bow would not be out of place. Be nautical; be original Ciao, Connie