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Re: Bells Beach

Post by BA » Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:12 pm

4/3 and booties for sure. No need for a hood. Wear ear plugs if you've got them, they'll help. Booties stop your feet getting so numb you feel no connection to your board. Enjoy.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by crabmeat thompson » Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:57 pm

shit, you can even do it in a good 3/2 mate.

you just have to glad wrap your entire body up before putting on the wettie.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by steve shearer » Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:59 pm

I'd say hood way, way before booties. Most heat is lost from the head. Stop that and you could be out there in boardies.
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by Davros » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:11 pm

Boardies and hood. I'm on to it.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by buddy » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:18 pm

Boardies, hood and webbed gloves.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by steve shearer » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:18 pm

you could go hood and nekkid if you were feeling bold....it's called a welsh rarebit
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by Nick Carroll » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:26 pm

JET01 wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:55 am
Been a while since I've surfed down in Vic.

If i was to surf bells in aug. Would i get away with a 4/3 wetty or does one need to think about booties and a hood?
Those two 14 year old girls who charged it last weekend just wore 3/2s.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by foamy » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:28 pm

steve shearer wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:59 pm
I'd say hood way, way before booties. Most heat is lost from the head. Stop that and you could be out there in boardies.
Not having a go, but cold head seems more of an issue for those sporting the Kelly Slater coiffeur.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by godsavetheking » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:30 pm

steve shearer wrote: Most heat is lost from the head.
Simply not true I'm afraid. The amount of heat lost through the head is proportionate to its surface area
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by buddy » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:31 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:26 pm
JET01 wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:55 am
Been a while since I've surfed down in Vic.

If i was to surf bells in aug. Would i get away with a 4/3 wetty or does one need to think about booties and a hood?
Those two 14 year old girls who charged it last weekend just wore 3/2s.
August a fair bit colder than June, and they live there so used to it.
But 3/2s are a lot better than they used to be.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by godsavetheking » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:33 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:
Those two 14 year old girls who charged it last weekend just wore 3/2s.
Yes, that's because the water temp is 14-15 degrees, which is 3/2 temperature. For christ's sake, it's 14-15 degrees here at the moment and I'm swimming in it. And it's fine. Harden the fuck up, Australia
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by JET01 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:46 pm

Many good points here. And as such you've jogged my memory.

I've surfed in Victoria before and only had a 3/2. Used to cramp up a lot, which I put down to the cold.

I often sport the same hair do as Kelly, so sounds like the hood is the go. For two reasons. I'm off with the flu at the moment and the GP noticed my surfers ear has delevoped. Think I'll go the plugs and hood.

4/3 sounds nice but it won't get much use back in sydney Might just have to just suck it up for one or two sessions.

Those Patagonia suits are about 900 bikkies. Sharnt be spending that sort of coin for one day.

However a mankini, hood, and booties sounds rather comical. I've got a proper hairy arse too, so I'm thinking it would offend people so much they'd let me have the sets just so they don't have to look at it.
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by JET01 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:50 pm

godsavethequeen wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:33 pm
Nick Carroll wrote:
Those two 14 year old girls who charged it last weekend just wore 3/2s.
Yes, that's because the water temp is 14-15 degrees, which is 3/2 temperature. For christ's sake, it's 14-15 degrees here at the moment and I'm swimming in it. And it's fine. Harden the fuck up, Australia
What's the lowest it gets? All i can remember was how bad my feet would feel in the car park at Gunnamatta when the wind was blowing.

I was a bit tougher in my navy days though.
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by steve shearer » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:58 pm

foamy wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:28 pm
steve shearer wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:59 pm
I'd say hood way, way before booties. Most heat is lost from the head. Stop that and you could be out there in boardies.
Not having a go, but cold head seems more of an issue for those sporting the Kelly Slater coiffeur.
Unfortunately physics says the opposite.
Google evaporative cooling.
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by BA » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:59 pm

But you don't surf on your head. If you can't feel your feet, it's gonna be hard work.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by steve shearer » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:05 pm

Your feet are under water and hence not exposed to evaporative cooling. If your brain is warm then the body's thermo-regulation won't have to retract the blood vessels so much.
Hence, more feeling in the extremities.
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Re: Bells Beach

Post by buddy » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:06 pm

When your feet get super cold, those surf coast reefs can feel quite painful.

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Re: Bells Beach

Post by foamy » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:13 pm

steve shearer wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:58 pm
foamy wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:28 pm
steve shearer wrote:
Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:59 pm
I'd say hood way, way before booties. Most heat is lost from the head. Stop that and you could be out there in boardies.
Not having a go, but cold head seems more of an issue for those sporting the Kelly Slater coiffeur.
Unfortunately physics says the opposite.
Google evaporative cooling.
Sure Steve, so the reason you are one of the few people (only person?) at Lennox who wear a hood during winter has nothing to do with an absence of a thick fur head covering.

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