With gloves, as with shoes, size is everything: I first bought a pair of neoprene gloves, but they don't give me nearly as good control and feel as my for paddling purposes bought Bering motorbike gloves, which naturally have a Goretex liner. Naturally these gloves have prebent fingers, and a few other reinforcements, that might come handy when you do white water paddling, and come to close to the rocks, or when you have to battle with the bears about the right to free way down their favourite fishing stream :-)! Actually, my neoprene are a little tight so that they are nearly impossible to get on when the hands are wet. For my wife the reverse is true, her Halvarssons motorbike gloves have a perfect fit when her hands are dry, but almost impossible to get on when her hands are moist or wet, while her neoprene are OK all the time. So she keeps her motorbike gloves for backup, and I have my neoprene as backup! After the swim in the almost freezing water recently the motorbike gloves became a mess, but even when soaked they warmed my hands very efficiently! And their innards dried quickly! But when hung up to dry in a conventional manner they took ages to dry, so now I've improved the water-repellents! And I'll use the hair dryer to dry them next time! Hope that helps, Tord Sweden *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
No, Please don't. Do not use a hair dryer or any heat source to dry leather. You will be sorely disappointed in what is left of your gloves. Wet leather is best dried slowly. Blot out excess water with a towel or chamois. Stretch to shape and let air dry. Drying in a breeze is good, direct sunshine is not. The waterproofing is a good idea. I like NixWax. Robert ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- When logic and proportion Have fallen softly dead, Remember what the dormouse said: "Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head" -WhiteRabbit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tord Eriksson" <tord_at_tord.nu> To: <PaddleWise_at_paddlewise.net> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 6:41 PM Subject: [Paddlewise] Winter gloves for sea kayaking . . . . . . > But when hung up to dry in a conventional manner > they took ages to dry, so now I've improved the water-repellents! > And I'll use the hair dryer to dry them next time! > > Hope that helps, > > Tord > Sweden *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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