What to wear?

[330xi]

This is in the wrong section, I know. But I have no clue where to put this. Plus, you 2 stroke guys are the best. :cheers:

I'm looking for what I should wear, as it's now getting cold out.
I want to stretch the season as far as I can, but at the moment Vermont is limiting me.

What do you guys wear? Today I went out with a wetsuit under a sweatshirt and my lifejacket. Froze to death. Not in the torso, but everywhere else!

Hands, arms, legs, feet, and face froze after a few minutes. So my question is, what do you recommend wearing?

 

[LouDoo]

To me it's the extremities that gets cold. I wear a pair of scuba boots or scuba socks, and a pair of thin neoprene gloves. I tried a wet suit but to me with the life jacket it's just too confining. I'll wear a pair of sweat pants or jeans, and a float jacket.

Lou

 

[330xi]

Thanks Lou! Completely forgot there are scuba boots/socks. Hell, could probably rip the handguards off my sled.. ;D But on a serious note, neoprene gloves it is.

Thanks again Lou.

 

[Spimothy Leary]

I've never gone as far as neoprene gloves, but I do wear some fingerless padded gloves (like workout gloves) that suited me just fine for when the wind was hitting my hands.

a good hat doesn't hurt either. my legs never really got that cold so I haven't bothered.

For me it was always my chest/arms, when zipping around at 50+ the wind on your torso can be unbearable so: I have 3 different levels of jackets. (we had a thread on this somewhere)

1) very thin dry top (google for sailing tops) completely water resistant, and gives maybe 80% wind resistance.

2) thicker dry top, waterproof and maybe 90% wind protection, these are big in europe/UK because of the cold water, air temps. I bought my Level 2 top from ebay.uk.

3) neoprene tour coat, waterproof and maybe 95% wind. (bought it used from a member here and used it twice last winter, it worked great!)

Depending on the ambient temperature and wind speeds i'll wear one of those three tops, sometimes even bring all 3 with me in the truck so I can thicken up/down if i'm cold.

One of my buddies wears goggles and he says that helps too.

 

[330xi]

For my main torso, my life jacket is enough. I'll actually try my kayaking gloves, see what happens.

 

[Spimothy Leary]

found the old thread. some good idea's/input there

http://www.seadooforum.com/showthread.php?68374-Neoprene-riding-jacket&highlight=neoprene+hood