Re: [Paddlewise] 'wicking' material

From: Kirk Olsen <kolsen_at_imagelan.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:15:49 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, E. Sullivan wrote:

> I just got some Cool-Max (tm) shirts which claim to work in
> cold and hot weather by wicking. They seem warmer to me than
> my usual 'Stanley Kowalski' undershirts. By wicking away
> moisture are you not diminishing evaporative cooling? Sweat
> is our friend this time of year (we got up to 99 F (310
> Kelvin) in Portland this week).

I bought a wicking shirt for a 20 mile kayak race a couple years ago,
not a coolmax shirt.  I hated the shirt it felt like it didn't breath and 
that it was warmer than my usual t shirts.  

I recently bought a coolmax clone shirt and did an 11 mile race in it on 
a hot day and didn't notice it pro or con.  Which in my mind was a good 
thing.

kirk
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