how old is too old, for a wetsuit

[swizz]

It sounds to me it is a little too small.

I'm pretty trim but I reckon you may be right. It doesn't feel too small once it's on but it is definitely snug.
I'm gonna have to live with it.

[russau]

thats exactly why i sold my old 7mm suit and bought a new suit. i only wish i wasnt so much in a hurry to buy this one cause i should have bought a farmer John like my old suit. i might price another farmer John and keep both?/ who knows??

[tommyknocker]

Thanks Hoser, Russ & everyone,
Been using a wetsuit for 28 years. I've owned two. I wash them & "dance" on it in a tub like Hoser said then hang them inside & out for a couple days each. But then I fold/roll them up & store in an old army dufflebag...I'll be looking for a couple heavy-duty hangers now...

TOm

[swizz]

I'm gonna keep it because I look buff once it's on, man girdle.
Like when chicks squeeze into shoes that are too small.

[CalGoldDredger]

I just got a neoprene dry suit and it is sweet, first time for everything. Even has a bladder relief system.

[dickb]

Ok John:

Report time. Tell us all about it and maybe some pictures. Most of the folks have no idea what a dry suit is, or anything about them. All that they hear about are wet suits and I'm sure that they would like to hear about it. You don't need to be going to AK and prospect to need one. I'm sure that a lot of folks would work earlier and later into the season if they had one.

Thanks in advance.

Dickb

[Flourchild]

:? WASHER-no not no way Jose as seen a few folks kill'm that a way-simply soak in tub and walk on'm like your x wife walked on you(ME)--I like the SINK THE STINK brand of wetsuit cleaner and use it multiple times a year for 1,500+ hour year---when we could dredge that is Had some good luck with the antibacterial soaps too but no fresh smell instead of dead skin flakes-John

No John go one of them new fangled washers buddy you can run silk through got a cold water no spin cycle on it that is far less dramatic than given it the ole grape stomp in the tub although that was the old way to do things but thanks to modern technology I can spend that time with a cold one on the couch and not breaking my hip in the tub

[Hoser John]

Extreme cold waters only---and by god I hope ya find TONS A THE ORO PURO JOHN up north and don't feed the bears or skeeters either John

[CalGoldDredger]

What lengths one will go for the chance to dredge for GOLD. mucho reclaimanatious luminous prosperous to ye aswell, HJ.

[libertydave]

My last wetsuit, an XXL, is seventeen years old and is the third one I've owned in thirty years of dredging.

Reading all of the replies got me thinking and I've finally come to realize that at 68, I am just too old for my wetsuit.

Life moves on.

Liberty Dave