RE: [Paddlewise] Palm Spray Skirt

		I have 3 of these skirts. Note that the recent imports (They
are made in the UK) uses a breathable coating on the nylon tube, and I have
noticed that I sweat much less with the new version (Black coating instead
of white)>>




		I've got a Palm combination skirt - top is nylon, the bottom
part that
		stretches around the cockpit is neoprene.  It's a very tight
fit, but
		not very difficult to put on.  Once thing I like about this
spray skirt
		is the lack of a knot joining the two ends of the shock cord
within.  On
		my other skirts, that knot sometimes made it difficult to
attach the
		skirt properly on cockpit coaming that don't stand very high
off the
		deck.  The downside of not having the knot (type that three
times fast)
		is that it is more difficult to adjust the tension.  I
haven't tried to
		on mine yet -- it's a perfect fit for my boat, but it's got
to be more
		difficult.

		 Greg Hollingsworth
		>>

		I have one of these, too, but after a couple years' use, I
discovered
		that the coating on the nylon top was rubbing off on my dry
suit,
		leaving white marks that are impossible to remove. The
coating also
		rubs off on rubberized thermal stretch garments. Has anyone
else had
		this problem? I suspect it has something to do with using
the spray
		skirt in chlorinated pools, but I don't know for certain.

		Chuck Holst


		
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