Re: [Paddlewise] New Year's Paddle

From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:59:14 -0700
At 18:33 05-01-99 EST, Bluecanoe2_at_aol.com wrote:
>
>
>In a message dated 1/5/1999 10:42:12 AM EST, CHUCK_at_multitech.com writes:
>
><< I considered wading into the river after my takeout, but the current
> and the knowledge that I would be standing around in a windchill below
> zero afterward dissuaded me. I know others who have done it, though,
> and it is something I would like to try in other circumstances -- say,
> just as the ice is going off the city lakes. >>
>
>Windchill is the calculated effect the wind has on wet skin, not on clothed,
>dry suited skin.  Although the wind does have an effect on the amount of heat
>removed from your body through teh insulation layers and the dry or wet suit.
>The effect is similar, but not the same.  It is like measuring apples and
>oranges.
>
>John LeBlanc

i'll take a peck of each, apples & oranges ;-) [well, that's how the local
farmers measure them, or was it bushles??]

thanks,

mark

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