Sailed last weekend on the three days. Wore a steamer (Peak 3mm) and Gath helmet but no boots on the Saturday and my feet were frozen. Made for unpleasant sailing - gave up after 1 hour.
So on the Sunday and Monday I wore 3mm booties (high ankle with the separated big toe model) and had no problems staying out for a few hours. Hands were cold but bearable for a few hours. Three hours was all I could do before the hands said "no more".
Have tried heavy duty washing up gloves (with the finger tops cut off) in the past and they are effective in the cold, but the tips of my fingers are what suffer the most. The water was cold!
Used my 10' SUP when the wind was lighter in the morning and it handled the 3'-4' waves really well in the cross-onshore conditions. Changed to the wave board when it came in later on. 
Sue - Our Flying Objects site uses flash, so you will need a later version to access it.
What I don't understand is that there are many companies that do make products specific to Windsurfing & Kitesurfing, yet people generally do not look around for a specific product that has been designed to do the job or they purchase Surf brands thinking they do the same thing.
Obviously being one of the companies that do specific products, we do make booties, shoes, gloves and Mitts, so there is no real need to shorten your water time because of the elements.
This is a great thread for people to be made aware of what is out there, so go looking.
FO Flux Glove below - no need for cold fingers
FO Lava Mitt below
Cheers,
Here in Tas i get away threw winter with a 4/3mm wetsuit, rashie,booties and beanie.Amazing how much difference a beanie and good booties make.If ya need gloves..why bother heading out.Ive been warm sailing in melted snow so you should be rite,if you keep moving.
Silly me. I thought that clicking on Products would actually show the list of products that were for sale.
I didn't know that clicking on Products made the buildings rise up, and the little sound effect play, and the product category menus flash across the screen too fast to look at.
At least I got to look at the product menu flashing down the screen while I waited. There must be some Flash version issues as well. I had to check several different pages before the products actually appeared.
Anyway, in terms of glove sizing, I would like some guidance to the size of hand that the manufacturer calls S, M, L etc. Glove specialists usually have a table with the measurements across the palm and correlate them to the sizes. Some guidance as to the ideal fitting would be good. Wetsuit gloves are a disaster if they are not tight fitting
I agree re sizing. Measurements are so much more useful than s/m/l.
Windsurfing gear tends to be made for men, so S for men is still L for me.
Before I waste time going to a store I'd like to know they have something in my size. Measurement is even more important when buying online.
Last time I went to look for sailing gloves the store I went to didn't even stock the small size, (which I needed) so I went home empty handed.
Seems OK to me Gorgo, but then I am obviously not as intelligent or as good at spitting as yourself.
The Severne Reflex II site gives me grief every time I visit so DONT go there Gorgo.
Everybody has different tastes and we certainly welcome feedback, although we may not always agree or listen to it
Our website is designed to be a mixture of being interactive, telling a story and informative about our products / brand. For those that are not familiar with FO we are a Perth based company making Windsurfing products since the 80's, hence the buildings (Perth CBD) rising from the water. I think that the Flying Objects are pretty self explanatory, we thought it was funny and Ben wanted a Flying Pig on the website.
When first loading the site it can take a bit longer for the menu's / images to load but once these are in the cache it becomes much quicker. Again it takes a bit of navigation to find some information but we wanted people to explore the site. You learn some lessons, make some changes and hopefully the site only gets better.
Our Gloves are made from a high stretch neoprene and they are a tight fit but this does not limit movement as the Flex is taken into account in the pre-curved shaping.
Regarding the Glove sizing below is our size chart.
Cheers,
Now that's really helpful, thanks Marco. Can't complain about the service...
The small gloves are pretty close to my hand measurements too. Yay!
Thanks Marco. That is useful information.
I normally take a large size glove and I can squeeze into a medium.
According to your chart I am just on Small in palm width , a Medium in span, and a Large in length. I'm guessing for your gloves a Medium would be right for me.
Given that your gloves are a high stretch neoprene, do you recommend that people go for smaller sizes?
PS. FYI, on my PC at home the web site works ok, sort of. The clicking on Products thing is weird. It should show the products before loading the pretty pictures.
On my PC at work if I click on the Windsurf or Surf links the site works ok. If I click on the Kiteboard link nothing works. I just get flying saucers and helicopters and crows flying about. This implies that Flash is working ok but there's something dodgey in the Kiteboard code.
Hi Gorgo,
I would say the first measure of consideration is the hand length, if this is way too short then the most discomfort will be experienced at the finger tips. The pre-curve shape will pull in the fingers and the end will pull in a bit tight.
From your measure I would say the best average will be the M
Cheers,
After sailing in Hobart, I always started the day with a thermos of warm (not boiling !) water poured down the booties and wetsuit 
. Always better start than the freezing water...
. Always better start than the freezing water...
I'll throw my usual cold weather tip in. Forgive me if you've seen it before.
5 litre plastic container filled with hot water from the tap. Wrap it in your towel. It will stay warm for 8 hours.
A $6 container from Bunnings is ideal. You can use a 4 litre Coke bottle if you want. A larger container stays warmer longer. Don't get one with a wide opening. The water comes out too fast.
After sailing use the warm water to rinse the sand off your wettie and douse your head and some down the inside of the wettie to warm you up. Don't use it all.
Strip off the wettie and wash your bod with the warm water. Even in a cold wind the warm water still retains enough energy to keep you warm.
Dry off with your warm towel and get dressed.
Wash your feet with the last of the warm water and put shoes etc on and head for home warm and clean.
If you want you could put the wetsuit inside the towel to have a warm wettie to put on.
Ok I want a neoprene hood/ beanie do I have to get a diving one or do they make them for surfing sailboarding and if so any recommended ones?
You are better of spending money on a decent wetsuit than spending a bit here and there on little things to try to keep warm.
Layering will keep you warm. I am just getting rid of a semi dry suit to go back to a thermal rashie under my normal steamer. Btw the oniell booties with a split toe will keep you heaps warm.
