Aaron wrote: "What is driving me up a wall, are specifically clothing, and spray skirts." My thoughts, FWIW... A spray skirt is part of your survival and safety system, and you should get a good one suitable for your paddling conditions. I think a spray skirt should: 1. Fit the boat 2. Be easily and quickly put on 3. Be as watertight as possible 4. Be comfortable 5. Should not implode 6 Should be removable quickly and efficiently, even while upside down underwater I have a 3mm neoprene deck, with 2mm body tunnel. The coaming edge has a thick, 7mm shock cord sewn to it. The deck is custom fitted to my boat. It has a 50mm bright pink strap sewn to the front for removal. Combined with a double tunnel paddling top, no water gets in, either at the waist, or at the coaming edges. After several rolls, the water trickling problems are now at the neck and wrists of the cag top, not the spray deck. This beats the previous deck I had by far. This had a neoprene deck / nylon tube. Those decks are probably more suited to warmer waters where ventilation might be an issue. Be interesting to read other posts on deck preferences. Does anyone use a Tuiliq? How do you adjust for overheating in these things? Does anyone use a cag sewn to a spray deck, like the "Dryback" dry deck made by Mountain Surf (www.mountainsurf.com)? Regards, PT. *************************************************************************** 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 Sat May 27 2000 - 18:57:32 PDT
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