Re: [Paddlewise] Cold Hands

From: Shawn Baker <shawnkayak_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:18:46 -0800 (PST)
"Mike O'Byrne" <Heep_at_attbi.com> wrote:
>Ahoy! I'm having serious problems paddling this winter with frozen 
fingers...Aside from pogies, does anyone have suggestions to alleviate
wet, frozen fingers? 

Try Nordic Blue or orange Atlas pvc-coated fish cleaning gloves.  Any
industrial chandlery down on the "working" side of your local marina
should have them.  Working meaning the chandleries who cater to
fishermen, merchant mariners, longshoremen...not the ones who cater to
yachties or recreational fishermen.

I have a pair of XXL Atlas gloves...which are the first waterproof
gloves I've found large enough to fit my hands.  I've been wearing them
without any sort of seal, but plan to incorporate a PVC ring/o-ring
seal to seal them to the sleeves of my drysuit.  Brian Nystrom, I
think, has glued latex wrist seals to a pair of Nordic Blues to make
his own drygloves.

Home Depot also has some cotton-lined, blue PVC coated "chemical
resistant" gloves.  They should work great, too.  They just didn't have
my size.  :(

I had been using a pair of neoprene gloves from WalMart.  You
apparently have to buy these in August or September.  Now that it's
winter, they're all out of stock, and the spring sporting goods are in.

Shawn

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