Vanlife and Wet Suit Drying

[tencentlife]

It'd be easy to attach two 12v computer fans to one of the louver's screen panels, or to another panel of ABS or something cut to the same size. You'd have nice crossflow ventilation for drying out your stuff or just keeping the interior cool.
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[bobbyblack]

Sheesh.. Thought I was more Macho, guess it turns out I get cold too quickly these days. Even in Cozumel in April or May I still pack my thermal undersuit and 3/2. So... IF I were VanLifing it there, I'd need to dry out 2 suits! Well... 3, as my Gal has a 3/2 as well, I suppose I'd ask her to come along.

I guess I would bend a stainless rod into a crime-scene guy outline. Pull the suit(s) over your guy-shape wire and zip it up. Use the top rack bars and some gun-lock cables (can easily find these for free) to secure them at each end. You'd still have to find a way to keep them from sun damage, I guess a taller wire shape to pull a tent fly over? I am a big fan of fiberglass tent poles. Make a dome out of an old tent fly, cut the dome up just corner to corner of your top rack so there's an air gap.

Love the idea of the 12V fans. Sounds like you'd mostly have sun? There are a bunch of inexpensive mini-solar panels out there, thin, easy to toss/stow. 12V out the door jamb from the dash plug would work too. I'd make a fitting for the fan/input at the neck, and plug the hands/feet a bit so its balloons up. A properly sized hole at each exit would let air flow through.

Mostly the problem I'd have would be the water on the roof, especially if you hadn't had a ton of time to rinse the salt off well enough EVERY time. I find hanging a suit to drip dry is a must. At least for a while. Maybe adapt the top rack idea to a vertical one behind the driver door? Make a stainless wire loop on the outside of your ARGs and find a secure spot to zip the gun-lock around down by the LP tank? Door handle should work for one arm's gun-lock. Sun damage minimization would be easier on this, as you'd just park with the slider to the south. In this scenario, I'd want to have my crime-scene guy bowed outward so it would stay off the van.
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We don't need no stinking wet suits...

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[zuma]

Hang it out a south/west facing window at your 9-5.

[Aryana]

Something like this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/High-Road-Car-Clothes-Bar/12183927

And these:

http://www.vanistan.com/louvered_window_screen_inserts.html

[kaalualu]

Keep moving West, you won't need a wetsuit. Sorry, I couldn't resist..
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[yiucycle]

I hang(strap it half way point, not on a wetsuit hanger) mine on my bike hitch rack all the time both on the van and my civic. Most ppl don't want to steal or touch damp clothes. I also drive around with it, usually if i get on the freeway, it will be mostly dry on the outside in 30-40min and i flip it inside out and dry that again. But other nice driver always honking at me and let me know i have a wetsuit on my bike rack.
If you have a westy or poptop you can also throw it up at the luggage rack but that is as long you remember to take it down before you drive off.
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[70coupyel]

The guy that actually started the #vanlife he surfed and he created a wetsuit drying closet in his van. You need to do some research and find out what he did. For full timers this would be good for towels and laundry.
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[DanHoug]

i'll take a fading wetsuit over the smell of a continually damp one anyday! they gotta be hung up to dry!

-dan

[montanasurfer]

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[VicVan]

You wouldn't want the wetsuit exposed to sunlight all day, it would get ruined pretty quickly. Neoprene does not like UV I believe.
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[DanHoug]

these or roll yer own....

http://www.aerostich.com/a-to-b-utilities/locks-alarms?limit=all

-dan

[montanasurfer]

[montanasurfer]

[Finagon]

If you have a decent, or even medium-sized rack on the roof, I could see some method by which you sandwich the wet suit between some heavy-ish gauge metal screen. Locking said screen to the rack?

Assuming it's a dry or cloudless day, you'd probably have a black wetsuit dry within an hour or two.

[WestyWanter]

if you have a gym membership can't you leave it in a locker there an have it dry?