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| - | //Editor's note: Farmer johns have been the source of some disagreement in various discussions. My own personal experience in wearing farmer johns over many years on many rivers leads me to this - be very careful in relying on them for immersion protection. They may work quite well in making you comfortable in your boat and allowing some heat regulation while you are not **IN** the water. But that may lull you into overestimation of their performance during immersion. The farmer johns I have worn over the years always allowed significant water circulation once i was immersed and provided little **long term** protection for **extended** immersion in water as cold as we have in Bellingham Bay. You don't agree? Please prove it with carefully safeguarded timed immersions (not just 30 seconds - how does 5 minutes, 10 minutes… feel?) - I would love to be given the specifics of exceptions to my opinion that we can publish here on surfski.wiki. And we really, really do not want to hear about mishaps that prove my opinion about farmer johns to be correct. If you have a tight top you can wear over a farmer john that significantly mitigates water flush thru during immersion and you have tested and proven this - we also want to know about it….D.Hooper reports testing and using a [[:hoopers_cold_weather_paddle_wear|full wetsuit over a farmer john]] in the winter...// | + | //Editor's note: Farmer johns have been the source of some disagreement in various discussions. My own personal experience in wearing farmer johns over many years on many rivers leads me to this - be very careful in relying on them for immersion protection. They may work quite well in making you comfortable in your boat and allowing some heat regulation while you are not **IN** the water. But that may lull you into overestimation of their performance during immersion. The farmer johns I have worn over the years always allowed significant water circulation once i was immersed and provided little **long term** protection for **extended** immersion in water as cold as we have in Bellingham Bay. You don't agree? Please prove it with carefully safeguarded timed immersions (not just 30 seconds - how does 5 minutes, 10 minutes… feel?) - I would love to be given the specifics of exceptions to my opinion that we can publish here on surfski.wiki. And we really, really do not want to hear about mishaps that prove my opinion about farmer johns to be correct. If you have a tight enough top you can wear over a farmer john that significantly mitigates water flush thru during immersion and you have tested and proven this - we also want to know about it….D.Hooper reports testing and using a [[:hoopers_cold_weather_paddle_wear|full wetsuit over a farmer john]] in the winter…// |
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