At 05:19 PM 9/7/00 +0200, Hal Christiansen wrote: >I do not know about the Fuzzy Rubber but you can get custom wetsuits made >at most Scuba Shops. I've learned a lot this morning about wetsuits -- especially custom sized ones. Mainly, I've learned, as I suspected, that paddlesports specific companies aren't real strong on reasonably priced custom sizes, in wetsuits or other paddlewear. I did get a response, I think from a similar question that I posed on USENET, and got quite a list of custom diving wetsuit URLs: http://www.uswetsuits.com/polartec_series.htm http://www.californiawaves.com/ http://www.customsplus.com/ http://www.oceanray.com/ http://www.kettenhofenwetsuits.com/ http://www.liquidfit.com/suits.htm http://wetwear.com/ Looking over the various sites, I was particularly impressed with the "Liquidfit" site. My informant also recommended them. I called them up and talked to the owner. It's a little operation, and they do nothing but custom designed wetsuits. The woman who owns the business is an oversize herself, and is very sensitive to custom fit issues. Prices seem real reasonable in comparison to other places. She doesn't know from kayaking, though -- she's a diver. I know that the thickness of the material is one of the differences we're looking for between a diving suit and kayaking suit, but are there other issues? I mean, if I'm going to have a custom wetsuit, I might as well have it custom made for purpose, as well as fit. Your ideas, please. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 10:16:22 PDT
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