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

The Palm storm cagoule works the same way.  You try NOT to make a wet
exit.

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:53:51 -0500 "Joe Pylka" <pylka_at_castle.net> writes:
>
>
>>..., 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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