Seaskin Nova

[sail2steam]

I received mine this week. I ordered in mid-February and the dispatch date was only one business day late. I live in the USA and paid $130 duty with UPS with a 3-day delivery. I dove it today for the first time and I love this suit. It’s my first drysuit, so I can’t compare it to a competitor, but the fit is perfect and it feels great. The quality of its manufacturing is 10 out of 10. I’m extremely pleased.

 

[MaxAir]

$50? Man.... I had to drop $120 with UPS to pick mine up today

Typical soup to nuts (order to delivery) seems to be ~3 months.

US duty & customs is only 4% on drysuit. If you bundle other clothing items such as thermals, you'll get dinged 24-28% on those.

 

[MaxAir]

I received mine this week. I ordered in mid-February and the dispatch date was only one business day late. I live in the USA and paid $130 duty with UPS with a 3-day delivery. I dove it today for the first time and I love this suit. It’s my first drysuit, so I can’t compare it to a competitor, but the fit is perfect and it feels great. The quality of its manufacturing is 10 out of 10. I’m extremely pleased.
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The "DIR Position" exhaust valve location is great. When I had to go back and dive in generic Bare suits, it was eye opening how ridiculously vertical I needed to be and the contortions needed to vent every last bubble from the inside/forward shoulder area.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

The "DIR Position" exhaust valve location is great. When I had to go back and dive in generic Bare suits, it was eye opening how ridiculously vertical I needed to be and the contortions needed to vent every last bubble from the inside/forward shoulder area.

I did not get the DIR position and just slightly roll my shoulder up with the valve fully open. Never had to get vertical, if anything I'm still horizontal when I break the surface.

I'd give it a shot maybe on my next suit, but I'm fine with what I have too... maybe I don't know what I don't know

 

[Alekseolsen]

I figured this Seaskin thread was as good as any.

My suit have developed these annoying frays - how do I get rid of them most efficiently?

 

[lexvil]

I figured this Seaskin thread was as good as any.

My suit have developed these annoying frays - how do I get rid of them most efficiently?

A lighter, run over them quickly and than stop looking for problems.

 

[HeXx]

Hi guys.

So my suit has arrived.
Haven't taken it into the water but have tried it on and the fit seems good, besides needing to trim a couple rings on the neck seal.
I do have a question dough, how does one correctly fold the suit into it's bag?
Every way I do it seems not to be a good one as I have to force the bag a little bit to be able to close it.
I'm a big guy but I would guess the suit should go into it's bag without force.
I'm folding with internal front brass zipper open and external zipper closed. Then with the zipper facing down, I fold the feet up to the knee area, then fold again up to the tigh, then again to the back, and finally I fold the upper part with the quick neck system into and fold the arms in.

Help is appreciated.

Cheers

 

[lexvil]

Hi guys.

So my suit has arrived.
Haven't taken it into the water but have tried it on and the fit seems good, besides needing to trim a couple rings on the neck seal.
I do have a question dough, how does one correctly fold the suit into it's bag?
Every way I do it seems not to be a good one as I have to force the bag a little bit to be able to close it.
I'm a big guy but I would guess the suit should go into it's bag without force.
I'm folding with internal front brass zipper open and external zipper closed. Then with the zipper facing down, I fold the feet up to the knee area, then fold again up to the tigh, then again to the back, and finally I fold the upper part with the quick neck system into and fold the arms in.

Help is appreciated.

Cheers

Get a bigger bag.

 

[HeXx]

The bag was shipped with the suit...
The suit fit well within the bag when it was shipped. But with the excitement to try it on I didn't notice how it was folded at the factory.
I did notice it was sent with both zippers closed contrary with what the instructions mention about storing with zipper open.

 

[JoeTPhilly]

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