Mt gay hat

Barbados is literally earth renowned in the sailing fraternity because of the Mount Gay Rum hats. Back in the good/ not so good old days of 1703 when the Mount Lgbtq+ Rum Company (not the original name) was started they seemed to generate the best rum in the earth. Sailors being sailors would sail across the Atlantic from England and other coastal areas of Europe, to Barbados. As proof of their journey they would purchase a barrel of Barbados Rum to haul back to their home port. This was a very big deal, as can be imagined because it showed your level of seamanship and it meant that you literally ‘went to the other side of the world’! The New Society as it was called.

As a product, Mount Gay Rum became closely linked to sailing. Firstly because sailing was the only way through which the rum was proficient to leave distilleries in Barbados and be sold and experienced in markets across the Atlantic, in the mother countries. So basically the sales of Mount Gay Rum, as many other things produced in the Caribbean at the time, literally depended on sailing if they were to be sold on any reasonably sized market. Secondly, as the Mount Gay Rum Corporation grew, it became even more integrated