Dave Bishop wrote: > The recent issue of Canoe & Kayak has reviews of [snip] The paddlers dry > tops were all worn inside the tunnels of the spray skirt, > > My first instructions in what to wear, and how to wear it, while > kayaking were to don the spray skirt first, then the dry top with its > tight waistband down over the skirt's tunnel, and then the PFD on top. > This manner of wearing these has always shed spray and splash and rain > very nicely and kept me dry inside. If you swim, that method for the skirt and DT invites water entry inside the DT. I would not do it that way unless I had a double-closure dry top, so I could put the skirt tunnel over the _inner_ DT closure and under the _outer_ DT closure. I own such a DT, and it seals water out from the outside, and keeps me dry underneath if I swim. I agree the PFD needs to go over it all. > On a recent tour I was chastised by a professional guide for wearing my > PFD over the spray skirt and instructed to put on the PFD first and pull > the tunnel of the skirt up outside of it. We were paddling on very calm > water on a warm day, so in order to keep peace (and with very skeptical > second thoughts), I did so, though the pockets in my PFD were covered > up. Don't understand where the guide is coming from, unless his main paranoia was entrapment with the skirt on the coaming. I would never paddle that way. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Nov 17 2006 - 20:52:57 PST
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