[Paddlewise] Coldfinger

Yeah, that's a "C".  I've got Reynaud's Syndrome --- or Phenomenon or Disease 
or something --- which shows up in cold weather.  Circulation stops in the 
last one or two segments of (now up to) three fingers.  They turn yellowish 
blue-white, and they hurt like crazy.  Some sort of degenerative loss of 
circulation in the hand --- not uncommon.  Not much in the way of treatment.  
Living in tropical climes is one way around it.

Anyhow, I <really> noticed it on Saturday when I was out playing "first 
paddle" in a new Chesapeake Light Craft design on the Chesapeake Bay --- air 
and water temps both at about 37 degrees F.  So I decided to do something 
about it, and went to two local dive shops.  Gotta be something around for 
divers, right?  And there was --- were ---  two solutions: a fleece-lined 
pull-on "dry glove" with its own wrist seal for only $102 the pair (and in 
highly fashionable international orange, to boot), and drysuit integrated 
gloves with stiff ring seals, one in the glove, the other for the drysuit 
wrist --- and these only $225 for the gloves and mating hardware and $50 for 
installation of the system in my Kokatat.  So, Plan B.

Does anybody have experience in fastening, gluing and sealing neoprene to 
latex?  I figure I could take a set of spare latex wrist seals and lash them 
onto a pair of unused neoprene gloves and save about $80!  Or $300, depending 
on how you look at it.  I figure they could be attached like wrist seals on a 
drysuit --- but would Aquaseal or something like it hold on neoprene as well 
as it does on latex?

Any thoughts most welcome.  I'm anxious to figure out some way of paddling in 
insanely cold weather without having my typing yipokm pit ptp [ew k.

Jack "Pegfinger" Martin, currently a list-lurker

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