Just starting out and will be limiting activities to flat water. Looking at upcoming winter and wondering if anyone has experience with dry suits. Apologies if this topic may have covered before
Hi Crocroc, I have a lot of experience diving with drysuits and I have not even considered using mine on the board. You will get extremely hot using a drysuit on a paddleboard. Even a five minute walk from the car to the dive site can get hot, paddling around for an hour or two would be like working out in a sauna.
I have zero experience in dry suits, but where will you be paddling? I surf in Victoria in winter and a full 3/2 wet-suit and I get hot and sweaty unless I am often in the water.
Thanks guys,
the suits I'm thinking of are made of material that supposedly allows the skin to "breathe" ... Not the SCUBA stuff designed for high pressure. One company I looked at it called Sobek.
I paddle in Pittwater in Sydney and try to do 5 kilometres a session. Hard coming back upwind sometimes so I ditch the board and hoof it on the road back to my car. Figure I'll look a bit stupid in my dripping wettie, specially if some kind soul offers me a lift
Dry suit will be a bit over the top for Pittwater! Have a look at some of the paddle specific clothing from Catfish and Virus etc for their long sleeve offerings... one of the biggest helps I found for winter paddling on Pittwater are neoprene booties - a few different posts on the subject if you search on here, definitely help a lot I've found...! See you out there!!!
I can recommend the Supskin. It has been on the market for quite some time and it has various models. I have the thinnes Diabolo model and it is fantastic. More information can be found in www.supskin.com
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Yup, Supskin works great! Starboard has something similar.
The one from Starboard is developed by Supskin too as far as I know.
