Now, before anyone commits to anything, I want to talk about resupply, because that is genuinely the issue here and nobody thinks about it until it is too late.
The Nike Court Dri-FIT University Men's Polo Shirt is a Dri-FIT polo, and Dri-FIT is worth knowing properly: it is not a treatment applied to the cloth, it is a microfiber construction that draws sweat off your skin and spreads it across the surface of the fabric so it evaporates faster.
And crucially — this is the bit that matters for planning — Nike states the property is permanent for the life of the garment. It does not degrade with washing. For anybody who worries about consumables, that is one item permanently off the list, and I cannot overstate how much I appreciate a thing that does not need topping up.
There is nothing to reapply.
Here is where I have to be straightforward, and I would rather disappoint you now than in the field: I could not verify the fabric percentages, the fit, the collar construction or the recycled content for this specific polo. Nike's own catalogue returned nothing on every route I attempted.
Their other tennis polos are documented at 100% polyester made from recycled fibres with a fold-over collar and a two-button placket — but that is a different garment and I will not pass its inventory off as this one's. I have brought spares of everything except certainty.
And now Jamestown, which is the single best argument for overpacking anywhere on earth. This is a town on one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, in the middle of the ocean, and for most of its history everything — everything — arrived by ship, on a schedule, and if it was not on the ship it was not coming.
The Museum of Saint Helena occupies the old power station and two floors of it were salvaged largely from wrecks offshore, which tells you exactly how the island has always thought about supply. And Jacob's Ladder runs 699 stone steps straight up to Ladder Hill Fort, floodlit after dark. Take water. Take more than you think.
Six hundred and ninety-nine.
You will wear this everywhere from an evening clinic back home to the bottom of those steps, and by the way, it is perfect for the walk up, at which point you will be very glad you packed a second one.
I have brought spares of everything except certainty, and I am afraid that is the one item I cannot lend you.
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