
Would that work? Or wetsuit only keeps you warm when it is soaked with water so you have that layer of insulation?
by BaNZ » Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:07 am
by oldmansurfer » Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:20 am
by billie_morini » Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:29 am
by dtc » Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:11 am
by waikikikichan » Wed Dec 13, 2017 9:27 am
by Big H » Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:48 pm
by BaNZ » Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:15 pm
waikikikichan wrote:Strange, usually you hear people getting skin allergies from the wetsuit neoprene.
by BaNZ » Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:17 pm
Big H wrote:I wear wet boardies and slippers to work....change once I’m there. Washed my car the other day in cold rain wearing a wetsuit vest (was halfway done when the sky opened up....finished the job).
A sweater would probably work and feel better all around but since you have like 6 wetsuits you probably ought to put them to work for you.
I have definitely seen worse in NYC including someone taking a dump in the street about a yard off the sidewalk around 11am on a Sunday morning. Squatted down, pants around ankles, the whole 9. Good times!
by eaNYC » Wed Dec 13, 2017 4:19 pm
by dtc » Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:16 pm
by BaNZ » Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:28 pm
by BaNZ » Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:29 pm
dtc wrote:Banz, maybe you should have some of these at work - surf wax candles. Rather than a sniffing a square of neoprene
http://stickybumps.com/the-original-sur ... d-candles/
by Lebowski » Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:35 pm
by BaNZ » Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:55 am
by saltydog » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:40 am
by Beginner77 » Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:39 am
That's a myth; water in your wetsuit cools you down, it doesn't insulate you. The insulation of a wetsuit it provided by the material itself; neoprene is full of tiny air bubbles, and this trapped air is a poor conductor of heat, thus insulating you. It's exactly how a jumper works, although of course unlike a jumper, when a wetsuit gets wet the trapped air doesn't disappear, because it's stuck inside waterproof rubber. This is why thicker wetsuits insulate better and it's also why innovations to keep you warm in a wetsuit mostly involve keeping water out.BaNZ wrote:Would that work? Or wetsuit only keeps you warm when it is soaked with water so you have that layer of insulation?
by oldmansurfer » Sun Dec 24, 2017 4:55 pm
by Beginner77 » Sun Dec 24, 2017 11:39 pm
oldmansurfer wrote:Long ago I used to scuba dive and when I used a wet suit what I was taught is that you get the wet suit wet and wear it till the water retained gets warm then you get in the water. If you do this you notice cold water leaking in a couple inches along the neck area. If you don't do this you notice cold water leaking in through the whole suit and it chills you a lot. Now this is Hawaii and sometimes I would dive without a wetsuit and it wasn't too bad so that might not translate into much but that is my experience with wetsuits which I don't use surfing.
by oldmansurfer » Mon Dec 25, 2017 1:46 am
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