Bieng 100% comfortable on the water is important. Most don’t like being to be too warm or too cold. The nice thing with having a Farmer John wetsuit is you can always cool yourself down with water.(splash water on yourself) . Getting warm is easy as you can just throw on an extra 1mm wetsuit tops(Reef Fireskin) and a wind breaker (Stealth chill cheater) untill your are warm enough. Having a “modular system” where you can take off or put on gear is in our opinion one of the better methods. Thus making sure you don’t get stuck out at sea being too cold or too hot! Cape weather is very unpredictable and weather apps are never 100% as predicted.
Summer (Some use the winter gear in summer as well but if extremely hot weather like Mozambique consider the summer list of items below)
Summer
- Chaffe vest
- leggings (like chaff vest material)shields legs from the sun
- Reef wetsuit Bermuda Shorts
- Chill cheater (wonderful product which is a really effective lightweight wind breaker that fold into its own pocket) – a must have!
- Baltic life jacket
- Peak or hat
- sunglasses
- sunscreen
- Reef or Coral wetsuit booties
- water and snacks
Winter
- Chaffe vest
- Reef Fireskin 1mm wetsuit top and /or Reef Thermoblast wetsuit top
- Reef Farner John wetsuit
- Chill cheater (wonderful product which is a really effective lightweight wind breaker that fold into its own pocket) – a must have
- Baltic life jacket
- Peak or hat
- sunglasses
- sunscreen
- Reef or Coral wetsuit booties
- water and snacks
NB! MANY Of THESE ITEMS CAN BE PURCHASED THROUGH KAYAKFISH SO LET US KNOW IF WE CAN HELP. WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT 🙂