At 08:13 AM 2/4/02 -0900, sc wrote: >Rick, the first rule of thumb is that you dress for the water temp, and not >the air temp. I wonder how many people know the water temperature before they launch. I may be a bit of a gear head, but one of the gadgets that I had before I ever started kayaking is a stream thermometer. I'm a flyfisherman, and I tie my own flies. When determining a fly selection for a particular stream it is useful to know the temperature of the water. Typically, mayflies hatch at around 50 degrees. Knowing the water temperature might tell me whether or not I can expect a hatch of mayflies sometime during the day. It could also be useful to know that the water temperature is before choosing what to wear. First you'd want to know the current water temperature. Factor in wind chill. However, this information isn't really useful unless you know at which temperature you're comfortable wearing a wet suit, dry suit, fuzzy rubber, or whatever other paddling garments you happen to own. The only way to really tell that is to actually try wearing each type of garment, jumping in, and spending some time in the water. From those experiments one might determine that once the water is 45 degrees, a wet suit isn't sufficient for a long immersion, a subsequent check of the water temperature could dictate what you might wear on a particular outing. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Feb 04 2002 - 10:45:23 PST
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