Drying Gear When Traveling
Hotels / Cabins – When surfing the coast or traveling elsewhere, I carry a portable electric heater with me to warm up hotel bathrooms. Some hotels have good fans and/or heat lights but many don’t.
I also carry an extra shower curtain rod as some hotel bathtub bars curve over the floor, thus would make it a wet mess trying to drip dry gear.
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I always bring my mobile fold-down DryGuy bootie and glove dryer especially in winter. Drying time is 1-2 hours.
In the car, I carry all my gear in a plastic tub with a cover to reduce odors. I’ll carry the tub into the hotel room to keep dripping down and my gear together.
Surfer’s Tip: Stand in your rubber bucket when you remove your wetsuit and related gear.
Drying Gear While Camping
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Bring rope or use your tow line to drip dry your wetsuits. Some use clips on the line to hang booties or find a tree branch to hang those from. Place a tarp over your drying line to keep rain or coastal moisture out.
You can attempt to dry your dry or wet suit with your campfire but beware of both melting or burning your GoreTex or neoprene as well as receiving a smokey odor.
DryGuy Makes a cigarette lighter powered mobile forced air drying option. Check it out here.
PEET has a propane powered boot dryer but the reviews show that it’s very slow. If you know otherwise, let me know!
Drying gear in your car means a stinky car afterwards. Think about venting the car and use of cedar sachets or other odor or drying
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solutions.
Tip: Putting on a wet wetsuit can be difficult as your hands and feet won’t slide in easily. Instead put your foot and/or hand/arm into a plastic bag then stuff that into the suit. It’ll slide right in!
Storing Gear
To maintain that lovely clean and dry smell, I’ll throw in a few cedar chips or blocks with my booties and gloves (inside booties).
Wetsuits are hung with thick hangers in a closet (or for me being in business, on a clothing rack) in a well insulated room. Note even dry neoprene can stink up a closet or basement. On occasion air out the room to keep it smelling normal.
Funny Story: Neoprene can smell like weed. A friend had a landlord that called him on it, thinking he had a growing operation. Check out this link from NRS which has good info on gear drying. Click Here
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