Hi Bill,
Not familiar with Brisbane but from a couple of open ocean voyages I've done
you'll need more than Goretex!
As you surmised yachting shops have the right gear, including non slip yachting
gumboots. You wont be able to get enough thermals either though they do dry
pretty quickly next to the body and changing on small yachts is difficult.
Wish you both luck on the voyage and of course to Richard and the others.
Cheers
Alan
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On 04/02/2010, at 20:50 , Laurie Knight wrote:
Go to the Valley. There are half a dozen bushwalking stores [Mountain Designs,
K2, Paddy Pallin etc] in a 200 metre strip along Ann St that sell gortex
rainjackets.
On 04/02/2010, at 7:28 PM, Moorhead Family wrote:
> Having been on many dozens of pelagic trips for many years, we have decided
> to bite the bullet and get some decent gear. We are going to Tassie in April
> on Simon's Blizzard trip and later in the year off to Mauritius and Heard Is
> with Richard. So we are anticipating some pretty serious seas ! Jack and I
> will be in BNE this WE anyway and we were wondering whether anyone knows of a
> good store to acquire wet weather gear? Maybe a yachting store or similar?
> Jack appears to have had his growth spurt for the time-being (6 inches in 12
> months to bring him to almost 6 feet tall!), so hopefully what we buy will
> last for a long time.
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill
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