Short Term Drysuit Rental for Student Paddle Trips

Short-term Drysuit Rental for a TRIP
For local WA club members ONLY

If you just signed up for a club kayaking, rafting, or canoeing TRIP and you need a drysuit, you can rent one here. You can have the rental shipped to your home or you can pick the gear up at Kayak Academy by appointment. There are cut-off times for shipping and in-store pick-up of rentals. Please read below. 

Rental cutoff times:

• If the drysuit is being picked up at Kayak Academy (In-store pick up)
• You must complete the rental purchase the Thursday or Friday before the club trip, by 11:59 AM (noon)
• If the trip is on a Saturday or Sunday, you must finalize payment by 12 noon the Friday before.
• If the drysuit is being shipped to your home
• You must complete the rental purchase by the Tuesday before the club trip, by 11:59 PM (midnight)

Rental Options

• 1-day rental
• 2-day rental
• 3-day rental

Each rental includes a pair of neoprene wetsuit booties of the appropriate size and a cap or balaclava. 

Dry Suit Rental Options and Fees:

The following prices do not include taxes

• 1-day
• $55 for the day
• 2-5 days
• $55 for the first day
• $35 for each additional day 

Neoprene Bootie and Balaclava Rental Fees:

• Included with rental, free of charge. Some students own shoes that are one size larger to fit with the dry sock on a dry suit. If you have that choose just a dry suit. The shipping is less expensive without the neoprene boot.

Shipping

UPS ground shipping fees:

• One way (you will need to bring the gear back to K.A. or pay to ship gear back to us)
• Rental contains only dry suit:
• $15.00 
• Rental contains dry suit + neoprene booties:
• $22.00
• Both ways (K.A. includes a pre-paid return shipping label and you ship gear back to us in the original box)
• Rental contains only dry suit:
• $30.00 
• Rental contains dry suit + neoprene booties:
• $44.00

If you choose to have the rental gear shipped to you, PLEASE HOLD ONTO THE SHIPPING BOX. The included return shipping label is paired with the box.

NOTE: Cost of shipping will be charged at checkout.

Refunds

If you change your plans before we ship the dry suit and don't need the suit anymore, we will refund your payment in full. For suits that have been shipped, refunds will be treated on a case-by-case basis.

Kayak Academy has a friendly Returns Department that responds favorably to kind words! 

Neck gasket fitting

If you’ve never worn a dry suit before, your first impression will likely be that the neck gasket is too tight. But gaskets need to be snug or the suit will leak.

Generally, people forget all about the gaskets once they get on the water and start having fun (or see the big hole they are about to drop into). However, if you try on a new drysuit at a store, the gaskets are probably tighter than necessary. We customize the fit of the gaskets on our rental suits in proportion to the neck and wrist sizes of the average person likely to wear each size dry suit.

If you have a huge neck or wrist and/or have a medical sensitivity that the gaskets may cause a health issue (i.e. if you’ve had lymph nodes removed, you are genuinely concerned about your circulation or have a sensitivity to latex), tell us in advance and/or ask someone in your group with experience wearing a dry suit to check the gasket fit.

The only way to significantly loosen a gasket is to trim it with sharp scissors, you may need to do this, however, if you trim a gasket we will have to replace it so the suit won’t leak for the next renter - therefore you will be billed for the cost of replacing the gasket ($95 neck and $45.00 each wrist).

How to sign up for classes/rentals:

Fist select the rental option and, if applicable, the lesson location. Then select the date of the lesson/rental you wish to take.

If you have moved onto the second sign-up page and are having trouble seeing all the required fields, try placing your mouse pointer over the "Additional Information" field and using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Otherwise, you can click on a visible field and hit the "tab" button on your keyboard to go to the next required field.