You really will have to get yourself a drysuit Wout. I sail 12 months of the year and I really only use the drysuit from around mid-November to March. Nowadays there really is no excuse for only sailing for four months of the year (I don't believe that the North Sea is prone to icing over just yet?)

BTW everybody, Robert (youngest son) HAS been selected for the RYA Zone Squad! Just got the letter this morning. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> (Puts on proud dad, smug expression). So now he has training every other week throughout the winter. Downside is I have to be there as a 'responsible adult' - oh, if only they knew! He's got a hell of a lot of work to do now to a) keep his place and b) move onto the Youth squad and, eventually, the olympic squad. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

At least 2012 is still a good way off though...... - thank God!