Re: [Paddlewise] tuilik - sprayskirt and dry/semi-dry top

What you saw at the museum (if I am assuming correctly) is
a long tuilik that will actually let you exit the boat with-
out getting wet.

There are couple of variants on the tuilik.  What it sounds
like you saw was a long version that when standing outside
the boat looks somewhat like a dress.

The advantage of the long version is that you can actually 
come out of your boat and get your head above water with
out breaking the seal between the skirt/tuilik and the boat.
Then you can re-enter and roll (or re-enter with help
from another boat) without having to reattach your skirt
and empty the boat.

  Mark
    Austin, TX


At 02:53 PM 2/25/99 -0500, Joe Pylka wrote:
>
>
>>..., but I am curious: Do
>>you place your sprayskirt (neoprene) under or over your top?
>        Usually the neoprene goes over the drytop.
>
>>. If that's the case, then how do dry tops seal
>>against the sprayskirt?
>        Goes the other way around -- the sprayskirt seals to the drytop.
>Many if not most such garments have a "tunnel" arrangement; the skirt goes
>onto the drytop, then a flap of the drytop goes over the skirt to shed
>water.  Usually works well.
>
>        Was at the Museum of the American Indian in NYC the other day ...
>There was an Inuit Parka that was also the sprayskirt; it just splayed out
>around the bottom like a hoopskirt.  I'd hate to make a wet exit with that
>combination.
>
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