Drysuits

(openwydr) · (openwydr) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 09-23-2004, 1:43 PM

What are the best drysuits out there. I am looking at the Oneill Boost. Are there any other I should be looking at? Also when you wear a drysuit how do you wear your vest?

Thanks

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 09-23-2004, 1:46 PM

uuummmmm under the drysuit.

(boarditup) · (boarditup) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 09-23-2004, 2:17 PM

Best value - Ocean Tec - makes the suits for many others - no ad budget. Limited lifetime warranty.

Best Suit - Barefoot International. Overbuilt for wakeboarding, but has very rugged features.

(wakestar8878) · (wakestar8878) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 09-23-2004, 2:26 PM

I'm not suggesting this, (KIDS ALWAYS WEAR YOUR USCGA LIFE VEST) but most people do not wear a life jacket underneath their dry suit, because the suit is air tight. So basically when you fall whatever air that is in the suit from when you zipped it up, will go to the surface of the water filling the dry suit up like an air bag, and most times it is enough air to keep you a float.

(calabria_man) · (calabria_man) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 09-23-2004, 2:30 PM

check out the Wet Tech Dry lite suit.

(puckinshat) · (puckinshat) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 09-23-2004, 2:39 PM

No vest indeed!

(jeffr) · (jeffr) **Join Date: May 2002** 09-23-2004, 3:21 PM

do a search… every time about this year the dry suit topic gets recycled….

I do not wear my GGA vest under my dry suit because it’s too big…. However…. I do have a non CGA type ski vest that fits quite well. If my suit blows a seal at least I would not sink as fast… and during the winter it adds a bit of insulation with out adding bulk that restricts my movement.

(puckinshat) · (puckinshat) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 09-23-2004, 4:07 PM

Wear sweats underneath for padding and as well as warmth. Make sure you get a baggy suit. Then it is easy to take off between sets

(lchamaschuk) · (lchamaschuk) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 09-23-2004, 5:06 PM

The O'Neil Boost is a great suit - we have two. We wear our lifejackets outside, but have been known to forget and just use 'Boost' Power to keep us afloat!

(shutupandboard)

I sometimes wear my life jacket under the drysuit and over sweats and a sweatshirt. I wear my life jacket more since the time i took a nice hard crash and deflated the drysuit. It was a little sketchy swimming with all that on, and i wasn't even wet. Just somethin to think about.

(rson) · (rson) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 09-23-2004, 7:42 PM

I wear my vest under my Boost suit, I have found the best riding clothes to be polar fleece PJ bottoms from Old navy. If they get wet, they dry quick.

I wouldn't trust the boost to support you because if you havr air in it it will break a seal under pressure and fill up with water....then you will be in a world of ••••

wakejump 10-03-2004, 11:32 AM

no vest

(blabel) · (blabel) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 10-03-2004, 11:43 AM

Bare, Barefoot Int. and Oneill make great suits. Buy the one that fits best.

You probably have enough flotation without a vest but what if your drysuit breaks and you take on water? You can't hold your breath nearly as long in cold water. I wear a non cga under the suit and it floats great. If something happens, at least I have something there to help me float.

(dbjts) · (dbjts) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 10-03-2004, 12:25 PM

When you come up feet first with all the air in your ankles you'll wish you had a vest on.
All this "taking on water" talk is rubbish I've bust many a seal on a dry suit and sure you get wet but water doesn't rush in and drag you down.
Most of the air has already been compressed out of the suit once you submerge and let it out the neck seal so you've just got a close fitting suit with a hole in it.

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 10-03-2004, 12:38 PM

I wear the O'neill boost. I love it. Last winter I never wore a vest underneath, and I would let most of the air out. I hate being puffy. I think I'm gonna wear my vest underneath this year for protection.