Re: [Paddlewise] Spray skirt

R. Walker wrote:
> 
> > << Got a full neoprene one now, tunnel and all, and I stay quite
> >  dry.   Neat side benefit, the neoprene is strong enough that I can
> >  set my cast net down on top of it. >>
> > How well do you do with neoprene in that texas heat?  Was nylon
> > considerably cooler? thanks, robin lovelock mobile Al
> 
> I was expecting the neoprene to be a lot worse than it actually
> turned out to be.  Ask me that same question in July...   I have a
> week long trip planned for summer, and the neoprene skirt will be
> the only one I bring.   Though... given that it makes my roll much
> more risk-free, I may simply choose to roll periodically to cool
> down.
> 
> The nylon is cooler, but that may be mostly due to the fact that it
> kept me wet all the time.
> 
> Richard Walker
> Houston, TX
> http://www.neosoft.com/~rww/kayak_log.html

The combo neoprene/nylon skirts like Snapdragons have been mentioned
before and are fine.  As an aside, Nautiraid makes one for their boats
but somehow got the idea wrong and it is quite comical.  Instead of
having a neoprene deck and nylon body tunnel it is with a neoprene body
tunnel and nylon deck!!  Reminds me of the time I was dating a girl in
Chile after my Junior Year abroad there.  I returned for Xmas to visit
with her.  I had worked a summer job at Brooks Brothers and so I had a
number of inexpensively purchased button-down shirts.  Her 18 year
cousin saw me with the shirts; I could see him eying them carefully.  A
few days later, we returned to visit with his family and he came out of
the next room wearing what looked like an imitation of my style shirt. 
He had a local seamstress make them up.  Well, on closer inspection, I
could see that the buttons were sewn on to the collar and not on the
shirt itself to go through button holes in the collar.

My favored sprayskirt these days is one from Aquaterra/Perception.  It
is all nylon but the material is coated with something breathable.  In
addition it has an implosion bar which keeps water from pooling on the
deck portion.  And it has a neoprene waistband that eliminates the need
for annoying suspenders that always seem to slip down or rub my back.

ralph diaz


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