David.Miner_at_gsbsc.gensig.com wrote: > Because I live in Florida, I have never needed a dry top, but I am > curious: Do > you place your sprayskirt (neoprene) under or over your top? ... Both my dry top (a Kokatat Goretex Whirlpool) and my semi-dry top (an old Mocean) has a double tunnel design into which the skirt fits. The resulting layering is as follows: outer drytop tunnel--sprayskirt--inner drytop tunnel--clothes (poss. including a wetsuit or fuzzy rubber). This makes for a very dry seal, even when you are upside down (or bottomside up). The water has to find its way past quite a few seals to get into the cockpit. While I now use a skirt with a neoprene tunnel, this also works with a nylon tunnel--you remove the shoulder straps and wrap the nylon tunnel and inner drytop tunnel together, as with a roll-top drybag. Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 11:22:54 PST
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