Michael Daly wrote: > > Kenneth Cooperstein wrote: > > > As to relieving yourself at sea, I don't understand how a relief zipper > > helps. Opening the skirt, taking off your gloves, unzipping, finding > > your way through all the layers, all the while balancing the boat, is > > highly problematic. Then, you have the problem of not peeing all over > > yourself. Seems much easier to just get a $12 condom catheter and leg > > bag. Ladies can use an adult diaper. > > The relief zipper, to me, is to make life easy on shore. I don't want to struggle > with the main zipper and getting out of the suit*. If I had a _looong_ crossing > to do, I'd probably go with a catheter. Most of my paddling is involves short > distance island hopping, so I've never practiced the art of in-kayak peeing. > > Mike > > *(I'll never forget the time I first tried on a dry suit. I thought I'd die, trapped inside > the partially removed suit in the change room at the store, with no one to rescue me!). When I bought my dry suit it was from the old Klepper shop in NYC on Union Square. I studied the entry zipper and calculated that it could work as a relief zipper because the way it went down into the pelvic area. To see if it would work, I put on the suit and did a dry run by sitting inside one of the Kleppers on the showroom floor (making certain no one was around). While I prefer not to go through the maneuver on the water, I have on several occasions. It is awkward but doable. The Stohlquist dry suits then had the entry zipper positioned so you could with a bit of contortion, use that zipper for relief. I believe the zipper no longer comes down that far in the suits. The Kokatat ones never did; the zipper diagonaled down to the waist and then across rather than down far enough. That is why I decided against getting that grand. I never saw a relief zipper until much later. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - 20:32:59 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:18 PDT