One hundred and forty years of expertise, experience and product evolution have led to the development of highly protective garments developed and designed for people who spend time in the tall mountains and high seas, such as the two-layered Helly Hansen Skagen Offshore Sailing coat, which is most certainly one of the best waterproof jackets out there for wearing while sailing and boating.
But while it’s all very well reading about such things, you can only get a full appreciation of how good such technical kit is by taking it out amongst the kind of conditions it was designed to perform in. Lucky, then, that on the day I found myself testing the Helly Hansen Skagen Offshore Sailing jacket, I ended up in the eye of a storm out on the open sea, way out of my depth on the wildly rocking deck of a Figaro racing yacht.
