I showed up to my 1st three sailboat races in Home Depot gloves. Real sailing gloves are in a similar stratospheric price-point range as biking gloves. On the 4th race, a fellow crew member gifted me a pair of real sailing gloves because he felt sorry for me, LOL. Just this past X-mas, my daughter gave me a pair of Pearl Izumi bike gloves...I must appear glove-needy to people or something.