Cold Water Apparel #2

Kathleen's re-sized neoprene showed up awhile back. However, when she (finally) tried it on (yesterday), she didn't like it at all. Too confining overall and way too binding in the arm/shoulder joints to be desirable. And the extra long zipper on the Ultra Jane turned out to be surprisingly encumbering. No hiking about in it!

She really liked the splash jacket though. So, it looks like she'll go with splash pants for her lower half. In other words, dressing to stay dry. Perhaps, for the level of water we're looking at, I've overestimated what we'll need.

No picture of her clothing worth posting yet. I forgot to take a picture at the start of our paddle. We finished after 5pm. The sun was down in our cove already. The camera needed the flash then and none came out well. However, they did demonstrate the reflective piping on the edges of her PFD - very handy to know about.

[photo from Dec 30 paddle added]

During this end of year vacation, I was thinking about going to one of our lakefront neighbors and practice getting wet in my wetsuit. Not trying to do a wet exit or self-rescue with the boat, but just seeing how the cold water feels in my outfit. Stay tuned to see if I pull it off.