Obviously regular wet suit booties are the way to go for minimal water entry. I have a still-bothersome skin graft/missing thick-tissue area above the ankle that necessitates mukluks. The regular ones were awesome in my confined Nordkapp, but I felt filled up with a little too much water (in my opinion and experience). Now in a boat with a bit more volume, I've gone to the Quicklace mukluks, though the MEC mukluks would have been cheaper, as the NRS ones too. Neither have the laceups though, which I feel have better support and obviously reduce water entry. How much more I don't know, but I'll be finding out soon. Off season I dress more for immersion longer time and colder water, so the difference between summer attire and winter attire and corresponding reenter times nullify each other to some extent. I do find swimming with even a bit of water in the mukluks does add significantly to cramping and decreasing swim speed. Water weights a lot or something. Doug L >I have some non-quick-lace Chota mukluks and some tall NRS Boundary boots >with straps over the instep. Both have a strap at the calf. The foot of the >boots fits very tightly, so much so that you have to defeat a vacuum to get >them off. The lacing just makes that fit even tighter, so it won't displace >much more water. > > Neither pair takes in an awful lot of water. More on the order of a cup > than several liters. My observations are based on a swim of the approach > to Nantahala Falls and stupidly walking into 3 feet of water. YMMV. > > Steve > > Kirk Olsen wrote: >> How much do the quicklace mukluks take on during a swim? I've got a >> non-lacing pair and they seem to take on several liters during a swim, >> which I'm not happy about when trying to climb back onto my boat. > > -- > Steve Cramer > Athens, GA > http://www.savvypaddler.com *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 09 2008 - 18:05:10 PDT
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