Easy. Dress for the water. Easy to cool down if too warm, not so easy to warm up if wet. Farmer John and maybe a light shirt for chafing, or no shirt, but if conditions windy and lots of spray then paddle jacket. Easy to cool down, hard to warm up if water is below 55 or so and you are getting wet. You must be generally hot. I have worn my G-Tex drysuit up to about 65-70 degrees and whether I get hot/// warm or not depends on how much time I spend in the water and what I have on under it. I have never been hot at temps below about 70 unless slogging along in direct sun. GaryJ Jeri Rivers wrote: >If the weather temp is in the seventies and the water temp is 42, what do you wear? The recent news of a kayaker in Lake Superior dressed in shorts and shirt who died got me thinking about what others wear versus what you should be wearing. I've worn neoprene in the summer and got very overheated. I get overheated in my Goretex drysuit when it's 50 degrees out. I was just curious what others think. *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Jun 30 2007 - 20:04:34 PDT
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