Kokatat was the first manufacturer to make a waterproof/breathable dry suit that worked, and Kokatat is still the leader in waterproof-breathable dry suit manufacturing. The significance of Kokatat's superiority is hard for people to grasp unless they have tested other brands of drysuits in the water. Although anyone can make a suit out of some waterproof/breathable fabric, and there are many to choose from now, there is a lot more to building good, reliable drysuit than that. Kokatat is the leader in waterproof/breathable dry suits because Kokatat has the most experience and the highest quality standards. But everyone says they have high quality so what does this really mean? It means Kokatat uses the best combinations of fabrics, seam tapes, and zippers for the price, and they can do this because they do the most R & D work, the most field testing to find out what works and what doesn't, and they have the most up to date, best seam taping equipment in the industry. Furthermore, Kokatat has a very low employee turn-over -- so your drysuit will be cut, sewn and seam taped by a highly skilled and very experienced crew of technicians that are happy to work for Kokatat because they treat their employees well. All Kokatat dry suits are built in their own factory in the US, most other suits are sub-contracted to factories in Asia where the labor is cheap but its hard to keep an eye on the quality. We keep looking for and testing new suits and other brands to see if any meet our standards, and that just makes us more proud to offer Kokatat brand dry suits and dry tops.
Kokatat Tropos dry suits and dry tops come with a two year warrantee and Kokatat GoreTex dry suits and drytops are warranted for the life of the drysuit or drytop (which basically means until you've worn holes in it or otherwise worn out the suit or top -- no matter how old it is if there's ever a problem with a seam leaking or the fabric delaminating Kokatat will fix or replace it at their option for free). The only thing better than a good warrantee is never having a warrantee problem/defect at all. And thanks to Kokatat's high quality and great materials and testing methods, it is vary rare to have a warrantee problem with any of their dry suits or dry tops. Kokatat tests each and every (not just a representative sample out of each batch) new dry suit before it leaves the factory, and Kokatat has the most rigorous leak tests of any water-sports drysuit manufacturer.
Kokatat offers the largest range of men's and women's sized drysuits of all the water-sport drysuit manufacturers and Kokatat offers custom sizing on their suits too. Kokatat also offers the greatest variety of custom options to choose from such as GoreTex dry socks, women's Drop Seat zippers, Hoods, Reflective material and more. When it comes to waterproof/breathable dry socks, Kokatat has more sizes of drysocks than any other drysuit manufacturer. For information on custom options for dry suits, click here Drysuit Options
To learn more about our Kokatat dry suits, see our main Drysuit page, click here Drysuits
To view all our dry suit models and prices, go to our Equipment Catalog page
Kayak Equipment Catalog and click on the description to
see photos and descriptions of each model suit.
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