What are pogies for kayaking?
Pogies are an open-ended envelope that goes over your paddle and has an opening for your hand allowing you to have bare hands on your favorite paddle and keep your finger in a warm neoprene cocoon. Most are 5mm and come in one size making it easy to fit them. Definition of ‘pogies’ 1.
What are pogies gloves?
Pogies are an open-ended envelope that goes over your paddle and has an opening for your hand allowing you to have bare hands on your favorite paddle and keep your finger in a warm neoprene cocoon. Unlike gloves, the pogies act as a shell covering the hands and tip of the oar, allowing you to maintain a sense of connection with the water. It’s waterproof, wind resistant and topped off with a cozy fleece lining.Pogies go on the hands like gloves, and then they have openings to slip over the end of the oar. Both the oar and your hands are inside the pogie, which lets you maintain contact and proper grip on the oar while you row. Team JL’s Laurence uses pogies for hand warmth while rowing in the winter in the UK.Pogies allow a bare-hand grip for maximum oar control while giving you the ultimate thermal protection in frigid conditions. The three piece set is ideal for sculling and sweeping on either side.Unlike gloves, the pogies act as a shell, covering the hands and tip of the oar, allowing you to maintain a sense of connection with the water. Made with our 3-layer softshell fabric, you get a water-resistant shell and cosy lining, all-in-one.
What are pogies?
The name pogie or pogy may have originated from the north-eastern American French name for menhaden (fish) or poghaden. Menhaden are flat, silver-colored fish with soft flesh. They also have a long, forked tail. These pogie fish are small (around 8 inches) and can grow to 15 inches (38cm) in length and vary in weight. Humans do not eat menhaden directly, not even in fish tacos! The fish are too oily and bony. Instead these small fish create an important link in an estuarine-marine food web.Wikipedia has a pretty full account describing the Plight of the Pogie: Menhaden, also known as mossbunker and bunker, are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the family Clupeidae.While many sources today claim that the menhaden is inedible, the fish were once consumed as sardines might be, or fried. Maine fishermen, for example, would eat fried pogies for breakfast. The fish that were not sold for bait would be sold to the poorer classes for food.
What do pogies look like?
Pogies are members of the herring family and have a distinctive dark spot near their gills. They have silvery sides and bellies, blue-green tops, and irregular small spots along their sides. These 12-15” long fish have forked tails, large heads, and gaping mouths perfectly adapted to filter feeding for plankton. They also have a long, forked tail. These pogie fish are small (around 8 inches) and can grow to 15 inches (38cm) in length and vary in weight.
How to wear pogies?
Pogies give you an even better connection to your paddle than open palm mitts. Unlike gloves or mitts they are installed on a paddle beforehand, wrapping around the paddle shaft and creating a cavity into which you slide your hands. This leaves hands free to grip the paddle shaft as you would normally. Gloves are not ideal for rowing as you can’t feel or hold the blade handle correctly. However you can use ‘pogies’, which are specifically designed to keep hands warm when rowing – they’re like fleece bags that go over your entire hand and the handle.I put my pogies on the oars first, then slip my hands in. Some rowers do it the other way around. If it’s especially cold, I start out rowing with fleece gloves inside pogies and as I warm up, the gloves come off but I keep my hands in the pogies where they stay very comfortable.