[Paddlewise] Heavy Duty Sprayskirts

Dear Friends:

First, thanks to those who sent advice re: plastic doubles.  I may have 
more questions later.

Second, I have had a Snapdragon sprayskirt, the all-neoprene model for 
about a year or so, and it is already showing signs of wear (we do paddle a 
lot, 2-3 times a week).  (When I wrote Snapdragon, they wrote back 
"hopefully you are not practicing rescues and bring boats up onto your 
deck, that will kill any neoprene skirt quick."  Well, I do practice 
rescues.  The skirt fits me and the boat well, so my conclusion is that I 
simply need a more heavy duty skirt.

Snapdragon has a kevlar-reinforced model at
http://www.snapdragondesign.com/images/products/exp_ww_kevlar.jpg.  They 
say it is for whitewater but there seems to be no reason I could not use it 
my NDK Explorer.  They don't seem to have a similar ocean model.

Also, this Bomber Gear skirt looks pretty heavy duty as well.
http://www.bombergear.com/breaker.html


And here is the Whetstone kevlar 
skirt. 
http://www.kayakstore.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/c-Spraydecks.php3?L+scstore+rpig9123+1002429768


Any opinions?


Josh



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