Hangair

[Surfing-Innovation]

Can I plug them here or not????

[isaluteyou]

Hangair = wetsuit hanger that dries right?

Do they actually work?

[Surfing-Innovation]

Yes - they do work......

Ideal for getting rid of that early morning 'wet wetsuit' dread!!

Ermmmmmm - and if you have a look on Google, you'll see a familiar name where they can be purchased from

[northswell]

Just going by the add whos wetsuit takes days to dry anyway? Utter fleshin', plus i don't have a problem putting a wet wettie on, even here in the frozen north, although its not the most pleasant thing to do in the snow.

[Stone Fox]

All very well if you've got somewhere to hang your wetsuit, not much good if you're camping!

[Surfing-Innovation]

LOL - if you're camping in a big enough tent, there's plenty of room - if you're in a van, there's even more room..........

And if your wetsuit dries out overnight, then you either live somewhere hot or don't have to use a thick wetsuit.......

Just as a matter of interest, are you just dismissing the Hangair on the basis of having seen the advert, or have you actually tried one??

Personally, I'd say I much prefer putting on a dry wettie than a wet one (for one thing, it's a damn sight warmer) - especially on a dawn session - and this thing does what it says on the tin....

There's an old forces term that always springs to mind at times like these - 'Any fool can be cold'

[northswell]

If i'm at home it dries overnight if i'm in the van its damp, not a feckin problem. This is the Cold grim north i'm on about. Five days surf mid Feb cold wet wettie everyday not a problem.

[northswell]

Oh. BTW your only cold whilst your getting changed, as sooon as your suited and booted, your normally toastie warm.

[tomcat360]

Thanks for posting this rather classy-ly instead of blatantly advertisting like some do.

Just wonder, how are your sales overall? Is there a big demand for them? I personally don't really worry about it, because the brief coldness will be over.....sooner or later

[drowningbitbybit]

The number of dawnie moments Ive missed because Ive procastinated ten minutes too long about putting on a cold wet wetsuit....

[Luke]

If the wetsuit's damp, i stick carrier bags on my feet, and you can get in to it really quickly....then once your in it's ok.

[Surfing-Innovation]

Sales wise - well...... they've only been in this country for a little over a week and interest in them is good - but as we see here, there is always a bit of scepticism with dyed in the wool surfers.......... (sorry about the previous post BTW )

Personally, if there's something available that makes my surfing more enjoyable, then I'm pretty open minded.

I've bought some pretty crappy gimicks myself in the past (like you do), which is one of the driving reasons behind the company - we buy things (yep - actually with our own cash) and if WE like them, then we'll sell them. I know another of our lines (the Real Wiiings) have been met with some scathing comments - but most of those have been based around them not looking 'cool' - again, I'll take a hit in the cool stakes if it means I can paddle faster, with less effort and for far longer - it means I can catch more waves and enjoy myself more!!

As for Hangair, if people want to get into a damp wetsuit in the morning, then that's fine by me - I'd rather get into a dry one - not only is it a damn sight easier (my suit has a chest zip - damn near impossible to get into when wet) but is a lot more comfortable........

Anyway - we've got plenty more products we're currently testing - including a new longboard fin system from the US - plus a couple of our own products that we've developed........ hopefully the sceptics will give us a bit of leeway and at least be open-minded to new products, after all, it wasn't that long ago that wetsuits were deemed as being 'uncool' - but how many of us would even go in the water without one???

[Stone Fox]

Even though it's a blatant sales job, I like the look of the product. Now if only I had a big enough tent.

And yeah, wet wetsuits suck.

And don't listen to Northswell, he comes from a part of the UK where they have no concept of things like "cold" "pain" and "too much to drink" - but they are decended from blue painted barbarians though.

[Ellie]

Must be something to do with the air up here then..I'm a softy southerner, but the shivering-putting-on-wettie moment is quickly over, and always made up for once you get in the water!

[Jimi]

As an owner of dry suits, dive suits, rashies, vests and ordinary steamers:

I've never used hangairs, but store your wetsuit properly. hang it up on a thick (like 1" wide) coathanger, not a thin wire or plastic one. The Hangair seems to be a pretty good plan to keep your suit free from storage damage, but so is a 1" wide timber coathanger cut out of ply using a jigsaw.

If you leave your suit folded, the neoprene compresses at the creases and loses elasticity and insulating properties. The creases put extra stress on the fabric covering the neoprene, and it'll rip and separate from the core. In the end you'll lose a few years of good use of your wetty. The same happens if the suit is hung over a thin coat hanger, especially if the hanger is supporting the entire weight of the wetsuit.

If you hang a thicker wetsuit, let the ankles rest on the ground, or on a shoebox or whatever, so that at least some of the weight is not on the coathanger across the shoulders.

If you can afford these hangairs, I'm sure they're good. I spent $35 AUD each for some wide coathangers for my drysuit and diving suits, because they're worth the investment. That said, I use my surfing steamer so often it just lives on a rack out the back of my house, and never gets stored properly.

[Surfing-Innovation]

Jimi - I think you're getting a bit confused about the Hangair.

Whilst it may look like an ordinary hanger with a fan in it, if you take a look on our site, you'll see a photo of it 'in the flesh' so to speak, which gives you a better idea of scale - the thing is huge! You're talking about 1" wide coat hangers - the hangair is more like 6" across!

And whilst it certainly keeps a wetsuit in better shape during storage, the main aim is to dry it quicker in between sessions (ie overnight or dawn to dusk) so you're not continually getting into a wet wetsuit.

Obviously, depending on your POV, this is either desirable or not ......

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[Jimi]

I haven't actually seen any pics of the hangair, since I can't find the link to your site, but was just going on the inferences in previous posts. It sounds good in principle, and having a fan built in sounds good too... but I don't like the chances of good sales in warm climates, since suits dry just fine on a normal (wide) coathanger overnight. Hope that clears up any confusion.
-James.