Re: [Paddlewise] Sospenders PFD/Tropical Paddling

From: Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_charter.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:24:22 -0400
<snip>

> All the reasons you listed above (and more following) were why I chose  a 
> foam pfd that stayed on my back deck during a paddling trip to Costa Rica. At  
> 90F+/100% humidity there wasn't a chance I would put it on. 

I'm not going to be the PFD nazi or anything, but I will comment that 
here in Georgia we would never paddle with a PFD from May through 
September if we found 90F+/100% humidity unbearable. I wear a long 
sleeved silkweight poly shirt and a PFD all summer long and have never 
suffered heat stroke or heat exhaustion. I'm not even all that 
uncomfortable. Maybe I just don't know no better.

-- 
Steve Cramer
Athens, GA
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