Preps Ahoy

Aquapreps
As mentioned before, sailing and boating activities are highly popular among the preppy set. Aquapreps take it to a higher level. They may own more than one watercraft, read boating magazines obsessively, and can look at any boat sailing by and tell you the manufacturer, approximate age, and how much it cost new. Aquapreps' wardrobes are littered with nautical-themed gear. Men have plenty of canvas belts emroidered with nautical flags, marlin, bass, pirate flags, and anchors, and wear Sperry Topsiders practically everywhere. Aquapreps prefer double-breasted blazers, their rows of shiny brass buttons calling to mind naval officers' uniforms. Aquapreps' wives always have blue & white striped shirts, reminiscent of European sailors, navy blazers, and gem-studded brooches in the shape of anchors or fish. Aquapreps fill both their city and beach homes with nautical decor, such as brass anchor doorknockers, old diving helmets converted to table lamps, sextants, spyglasses, intricate model tall ships, oil paintings of ships at sea, and framed antique coastal maps. It may sound tacky or corny, but their decor always looks tasteful, never like they got it from a bankrupt all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant. Aquapreps' cars are required to have their initials spelled out in semaphore flags on a vanity plate or stickers on the rear window. Some take sailing so seriously as to participate in boat races. At these events, males see who can make it to the finish line first with a gut full of liquor, while their wives gather on the yacht club's dock in their white dresses and big floppy hats and watch the fun while sipping daiquiris. Others merely treat sailing as an excuse to join their beach town's local yacht club, where men gather in their double-breasted blazers and sit at the club's open-air bar looking out at the forest of masts, sails, and ropes.