Re: [Paddlewise] Winter gloves for sea kayaking

From: Chris Hardenbrook <cghbrook_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 09:50:19 -0800
Interesting to hear people experiencing "waterlogged" neoprene gloves.
Neoprene is closed cell stuff and therefore impossible to saturate.  The
surface may become wet and even retain water in exposed cells of the
material, but it can not (as I understand it) go deeper. That is why
neoprene is used for such things as scuba suits.

Granted there is a variety of grades of neoprene, and you may encounter
*cheap* stuff that falls apart more readily than a high quality neoprene
(very stuff stuff, actually).

Here's an idea: How about neoprene gloves that are slightly large over
capilene-style liners?

                      >///:>Chris Hardenbrook<:\\\<
                 Increasingly Cloudy Southern California

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