Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

Sad gear
Some gear made a good first impression, however it really makes you sad
when the quality does not come up to your needs, when you have to use it
every day.
The spraydeck´s name never keeps the promise. The ocean the “HF- ocean skirt”
was made for must be really special. It is definitely not for the Atlantic. The neoprene
is not water resistant at all– even after paddling for just two hours with occasional
waves running over the spraydeck I always had least two liters of water in the
cockpit.
The open Palm Webbed Paddle Mitt from Reed is an excellent idea. However it is
just an idea. The stitching dissolved just after two day´s paddling and after two weeks
they looked like rags on my hands. I still had to use them, because the wind was too
cold just to paddle with bare hands.
The gasket of my one-year old Palm Aleutian dry suit ripped after one weak. First
traces of wear-out in the area of the armpits could be seen after one week. This got
worse and new bruises joined. I had constantly to fix these with Aquasure. After five
weeks I got a hole in one of the feet, as well.
The biggest disappointment was the boots from aquadesign – at the end of the trip
they had almost fallen apart.
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
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