As a surfer, the wetsuit has always been your best friend that protects you from the elements that can be so cold and harsh but allows that extra half an hour in the water to be a comfortable and enjoyable experience. The advancements in wetsuit technology over the last twenty years are truly groundbreaking. From water users layering themselves in a neoprene type material back in the day, to the high end, flexible and thermally resilient wetsuits seen on the market from today's biggest brands.
If only the manufacturers would come up with some bright idea that would make the time it takes for a wetsuit to dry a period of minutes instead of hours or indeed days. In the winter, the cold temperature and extreme gale force winds should be enough to contend with, without having the prospect of putting your flesh into a cold, wet and smelly wetsuit. Your last session was a few days ago but the wetsuit you hanged on the line still hasn't dried properly and you have the unpleasant experience of pulling this sodden neoprene over your body.
A cold damp wetsuit is the recipe to put anyone off a surfing session in mid January. So what's the solution to always having a comfortable start to any surf. Well, a clean and dry wetsuit would be a great start. Some products on the market do help to dry a wetsuit that bit quicker. A clever little product is an electric hanging rail that blows out hot air. Like a hair drier only in the shape of a hanger and designed to force warm air into a wetsuit and dry the layers of neoprene much quicker. Probably the most expensive hanger you will ever buy.
Another solution, and in my opinion the best by a long way but not the cheapest, is to always have two, or if your feeling super flush more than two wetsuits to hand at any time. For locations with variable climates this may require two 3mm/2mm wetsuits for the summer and two 5mm/3mm wetsuits for the winter. With multiple suits at hand a rotational system can be used that will always provide a dry wetsuit, that is as long as you don't surf three times a day (I wish). OK so not the cheapest option out there but it really does take the pain away and there's nothing better than squeezing into a dry, clean, ultra flexible and warm wetsuit. Take my world for it, I've been in more stinking hole ridden damp rubber hell traps than I care to remember but those days are long gone.
Being around the surf industry for many years has provided a few tips and tricks especially with the day to day life of wearing wetsuits. For more information on wetsuits please visit transsurf.co.uk.
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