Saltwater Brewery - What's Brewing — sun protection

September is the month South Florida gets away with things. The visitors have gone home, the water is still bathtub-warm, the mullet start moving down the beach — and the sun is every bit as heavy as it was in July. It is a great month to be outside and a punishing month to wear the wrong thing on your head. Which brings us to the visor. It is the most divisive piece of headwear in the cooler, and most of the argument happens because nobody says out loud what a visor actually does and does not do. So here...

SPF is a lotion rating. UPF is a fabric rating. Here is the difference in plain English, what UPF 50+ blocks, and why a sun shirt beats reapplying sunscreen on a boat.

Eight hours offshore is a sun problem before it is a fishing problem. Here is the exact kit we wear out of Delray Beach - UPF 50+ sun shirts, mesh trucker hats, and neck gaiters.