How do you store your wetsuits?

[wladius]

What is the best way?

Hung on the hanger? Folded on the shelf?

Recently I got my wetsuits - one is custom from Ellios, 5mm thick for outside diving, open cell (with coating) on the inside, nylon on the outside, the other one is Beuchat Marlin Elite, 1.5mm (for pool training), smooth on the outside, nylon on the inside.

Especially on the Marlin I noticed some wrinkles on the outer layer from packaging.

 

[Bill McIntyre]

I hang mine on one of those very wide hangers made for that purpose.

 

[cdavis]

I use wooden hangers covered with newspaper to give the same effect as Bills. My Elios 3 mil is about 8 years old and still perfect, no creases at all.

 

[Bill McIntyre]

I use wooden hangers covered with newspaper to give the same affect as Bills. My Elios 3 mil is about 8 years old and still perfect, no creases at all.

Doesn't the paper get soggy? Or do you dry the suit before hanging it up? I hang mine up wet.

 

[cdavis]

Mine don't get used as much as yours, Bill. I can wait till they dry.

Where did you get your hangers?

 

[Bill McIntyre]

I think almost any dive shop around SoCal carries wet suit hangers.

 

[cdavis]

I don't think I've ever seen them in Florida.

 

[Bill McIntyre]

I guess that must be because Florida guys don't need wetsuits like we do. When I was a teenager in St. Pete, wetsuits had not been invented yet. In the summer we dove with nothing but trunks, and in the winter we just didn't dive. In the spring, we wore sweats.

Out here, you need at least a 5 mm suit year around.

Those wetsuit hangers are expensive, but then they essentially last forever.

 

[Bill McIntyre]

Here I am in typical diving garb when I was 14 or 15.

 

[Hobelf]

I just fold them when they R dry. The creases usually open in a day or 2 even after a long storage. Might craft a rack rof them 1 day...

 

[Bill]

I use two pant hangers with the jacket upside down by the beaver tail and two clothes pins to hold the sleeves in place.