Re: [Paddlewise] Spray skirt recommendations needed

From: ralph diaz <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:42:18 -0800
It sounds like you need one of the combi skirts that has a nylon tunnel
and a neoprene deck.  The neoprene deck will likely fit tight as you
want to the rim, whereas the nylon tunnel will not be oppressively
warm.  Snap Dragon, among others, makes these.

An interesting story,  A few years back, Nautiraid saw the Snap Dragon
type skirt mentioned above.  But somewhere between viewing one at a show
or somewhere and getting back to the cutting table at the factory, the
Nautiraid people got things a bit confused.  They wound up producing a
spray skirt with the tunnel of neoprene and the deck of nylon, almost
the worse of both worlds!!

ralph diaz

Steven W. Jarvis wrote:
> 
> Paddlewisers,
> 
> I've been paddling with a neoprene skirt (the same one I use on my WW boat,
> actually) all winter, and now that it's starting to warm up some down here,
> I'd like to get something else for warmer weather.  The hitch is that I'd
> like one that's perhaps a little more comfortable (in fit and temperature)
> than the neoprene (mine's a Perception/Harmony LC-1), but still has a secure
> fit so I can practice sculling and rolling without filling my boat full of
> water. The nylon skirts I've seen in the catalogs don't look like they seal
> all that securely. My drysuit doesn't have a skirt thingy to block water
> coming in like some have, so the only thing over the skirt will be my PFD.
> 
> Any recommendations? Price isn't really any object, as they all seem to be
> withing $40 or so of each other.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> 
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