Dean in his old drysuitSea kayaking is an expensive hobby if you buy all the gear. And, once you have it all, its not the end of the spending. Things wear out and things get lost. I'm noticing my drysuit is suffering from use. Not abuse, but use - over 100 times in each of the past two years alone and close to 500 in the six years since I bought it. I have to prepare mentally for the coming money hemorrhage.
Dean's drysuit began to leak last week. He sent it in for repair or replacement but couldn't do without it the 4 - 6 weeks he'd be waiting for its return. So, he bought a new one. Like he said, what good is money in the bank above a cushion for emergencies? And ... a drysuit is an emergency!
Thanks Dean for keeping it in perspective.
ya... I'd say your suit doesn't owe you anything now. You've had a lot of good use out of it without the trouble of having to send it back and doing without it for a month or so.
ReplyDeleteAs i understand it, the Kokatat goretex suits have a lifetime warrently on the life of the suit, not the person using it. Some people can wear out a drysuit in a year, others will wear it out in 5 or more years.
It's a given that at some point every suit will fail, it's just a question of if there is still life left in the suit (warrenty) or if the suit has outlived its life in which case there is no more warrenty... then what do you do?
My choice was to just get another one and keep on paddlin' - yee haw