JSpinner_at_aol.com wrote: SNIPPEDD > I hear coated is bad when out of the boat from wind chill on the suit > that is over wet clothes. I haven't experienced much of that but I have seen > people in GorTex huddled behind me in the wind. I am not certain why anyone would say that the coated stuff makes you feel cold because of the wet insulation underneath. Your experience, my experience, points to this being a fallacy. Wet stuff is not going to chill unless it is exposed to air...coated is fully air proof. Goretex is not since it does have pores that breath and let heat out with the moisture being transported outward. That is why normally people with about the same metabolism will want a bit more insulation under a Goretex dry suit than under the coated one at least as far as the question of feeling chilly outside of your boat. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 13:15:48 PST
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