Hi Steve, It sounds like you intend to wear your drysuit with this cooler spray skirt. I don't think you'll notice much of a difference between Nylon and Neoprene with or without the drysuit, maybe even less so with the suit. I have both an all Neoprene and a Neo deck/Nylon tunnel skirt. I find the Neoprene very effective for it's water seal at the combing while, as you know Nylon doesn't seal very well at the combing. Both seem to seal about the same at the chest given that the water will penetrate at the hollow of your spine for the most part. I find the Neoprene tunnel more comfortable than the nylon tunnel. You will perspire with either, since neither will breath. The major shortcoming of the combination is the suspenders that most combination desks use to keep the tunnel on your chest. Certainly try to borrow one before you buy. In my experience all Neoprene is the way to go if you plan to play off-vertical at all. Now a Goretex deck with a belly band would be very interesting. I think Perception offers one, though not GTX it looked interesting and had no suspenders. Best of luck! Jed *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Mar 16 2000 - 12:16:58 PST
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