Re: Cold Water Wetsuits
- From: Wolfgang Soergel <wsoergel@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:10:20 +0100
LeeD wrote:
Could it be that you extraploate a bit much from your and ones company experience in California to the rest of the world? Sure, with relatively warm air, mostly sunny skies and relatively cool but by no mean ice cold water a surfiing style wet suit will do the trick for many. But let the air get colder down to near freezing, take away the sun and you need something different. Sure, a cold water windsurfing suit must be suited for swimming extended periods. But ussually you stand up in the cold air, with arms extended, instead of lying on your belly paddling. And at least my experience from winter sailing here and fall sailing in denmark (where the water is comparable to california, maybe even a bit warmer but air is much cooler and sun rare) is that wind chill is the biggest issue when getting cold.
Wolfgang
Don't agree with you at all, unless you have never surfed in your life. Who needs a loose baggy suit in the forearms and shoulders? You need the wetsuit when you have to paddle and swim, and the loosness just does nothing to help you but trap water inside and slosh around. Plenty of surfsailors use regular surfing wetsuits, and none have problems. Some of them even hook in once in a while, so their forearms don't pump up. Er....just kidding out the last sentence....
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