Snapdragon is now making a randed skirt. Not sure if it's "official" but if you email them, they'll make you one. I've had good luck with mine. Just a note that if you really want to stay dry, try to have separate skirts for each boat. The cockpit sizes are enough different between my playboat and my creekboat that I'm now using dedicated skirts for both boats.

The one argument against a randed skirt is if you were in a really bad position, you couldn't "kick" out of it. Frankly, I've never even tried to kick out of any skirt, so if I was in that sort of a jam I guess I'd just be screwed.

I've blown skirts on pretty much every feature on the Wenatchee, so it's definitely nice to have a tight one for playboating.

Edited by NateW - 16 Oct 2015 at 12:17am

All rands are not created equal. Just because it is a rand skirt, does not mean it's going to be difficult to put on and remove. I still use a MountainSurf EZ-On rand skirt and the rand itself is much, much more stretchy than other rand skirts I've used and it's still dry after all these years(though it's been patched up a bit). Much more stretchy than Meryl's new Seals skirt.

I have one of those weird IR Lucky Charms skirts and the rand on that thing is beastly. The only saving grace is, it is slightly too big for my Mamba, is has sort of an in between size cockpit. It's still a booger when it's cold.

I got rid of my MountainSurf Bomber skirts because of flair ups of tennis elbow and other injuries made putting skirts on a pain. Those things were brutal. I got my first one barely used for cheap because the poor guy I bought it from couldn't put it on by himself. Now, I'm that poor guy. :-(

If we all paddled canoes, none of this would be a problem.