Wetsuit Care System
Our New Wetsuit Hanger Streamlines Wetsuit Gear Care.
Almost as easy as throwing your suit over the deck rail.
Choosing the right wetsuit hanger is just one of a number of important steps in the care of your wetsuit and other neoprene gear. A basic understanding of the environmental factors that age and degrade the neoprene of your wetsuit, booties, and gloves is a good place to start. Sun, salt, urine, and the organic matter found in seawater are the environmental factors that age and degrade the neoprene of your wetsuit, booties, and gloves. So proper wetsuit care begins with rinsing your wetsuit out in fresh water after each use followed by drip drying, air drying, and finally storage. The rigors of use also take their toll on today’s flexible suits, but you can’t change that much. What you can do to protect your investment is heed the advice of the wetsuit manufacturers, who for years have said the following:
- Do not hang your wetsuit with a shoulder type hanger when it is sopping wet.
- Do not store your wetsuit with a shoulder type hanger for prolonged periods.
Why? The weight of the suit can permanently damage the thinner neoprene in the neck and shoulder areas as well as the associated seams.
Currently the HangGoose® wetsuit hanger is the only alternative to the stress inducing shoulder hanger. A number of awkward to use wide shoulder hangers dominant the market today. You can even choose one that plugs in to the grid and blows air down the neck, but why waste our planets resources on something that can be easily done passively. Besides, before the fan does much good the water has to drain from the shoulders to the ankles!
The reasons above could be enough to convince you to switch to the HangGoose method of wetsuit gear care. Additionally a number of wetsuit designers as well as many surfers and divers have tried it and to their delight have discovered the following benefits:
- When hung from the waist; water has half the distance to drain, which means quicker drying time.
- The open arm makes the hanger about as easy as throwing your suit over the rail of the deck.
- Booties don’t have to stink! Not if you goose ‘em.
- Wetsuit gear care is easier when your wetsuit, booties, and gloves all hang together.
- If you drain, dry, and store in different locations you will find togetherness is wonderful.
- The 10” reach of our hanger makes you start looking at places to hang your gear that you never have before.
- When you are ready for the next session, just grab your hanger, throw it all in your bin or bag and go.
- If you are traveling our hanger folds to a compact bundle that won’t snag your suit or take much space.