Sun Protection

[Robert Zambelli]

At KOI, Doug Taffinder gave me this information and asked that I pass it around.

There is a company in Seattle, Sun Precautions, that deals in various sun protection products. The clothing trade name is Solumbria.

The contact info is www.sunprecautions.com or 1-800-882-7860.

He seems quite enthusiastic about their products but I have no further information.

Bob Z.

[Randy Powell]

Ty,

Not much sun, but lots of UV. Amazing how burned you can get on an overcast day where you never really see the sun at all.

I prefer the SPF90 myself.

[Howard Rush]

I looked it up.  It's two blocks from the best bakery in town and one block from the best place to have breakfast.  Any claim they make about their customers' decreased mortality from skin cancer needs to be adjusted for death rate from heart disease. 

[Jim Pollock]

Ty,

One outa two?  Gee, that's not bad...Equates to 50% Sun....

[Roger Vizioli]

Thanks Bob.
Another source of UV protection/hats that we use is Bass Pro shops.
There are many providers out there, never did see them rated against one another.
If anyone has rating info., please post same.
thx,
Roger Vizioli

[Mike Keville]

This is no joke.  I'm about to undergo my 4th surgery to remove skin cancer (in addition to numerous areas "frozen off" with liquid nitrogen).  Two years ago, surgeons removed 50% of my nose, then re-built it via plastic surgery.  Last month they did the same with the left ear...and next week they go back into the nose because it has re-appeared.  Not fun, folks.  And all of that despite years of wearing liberal applications of SPF 50 sun screen.

This has effectively ended my Stunt Judging days....and perhaps flying as well.  From now on, I'll be the guy under the shade canopy.

[Norm Faith Jr.]

  I do understand, Having spent 14 years at sea out of 20 in the canoe club  of America. But of the two times I have been in Seattle, only once did I see the sun.

The other six years?? Two in the brig; three in the pickle barrel and one cleaning squid. 
Norm

[Guy B Jr]

Bob,
I know people who have tried the Solumbra products and swear by them. I personally use the Columbia hats, shirts, and slacks. They must work, since I can put them on, use 45SPF on the back of my neck, ears, and hands, and I can stay out in the sun at the flying field for about 5 hours without any redness.

Mike,
It's not the sun you got since the advent of sun screens. It is what you got for the first 40 years of your life. I grew up on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale. My skin cancers started popping out at age 45. Since then, I have had 12 squamous cell cancers surgically removed and the numerous frozen ones as you said. I feel your pain and pray that they get it all. I have been lucky. I have only had one that had to be dug out again a few years later. God bless!

[pipemakermike]

I have a friend, a keen golfer who has been bald since a young man.  He started getting skin problems on his head a couple of years ago and has now been diagnosed with skin cancer (SCC) and is not likely to last the year.  I am telling all my friends to wear a hat in the sun and to make sure that it is a good protective hat as some give little protection from UV.

Mike

[john e. holliday]

I have been out in the sun almost all  my life.  Doing farm work like haying and tractor work.  I would get burnt at contests even tho I wore a big hat.  I tried the sun screens in later life, like in my 30's and got some of the worst burns, but not like the one I got in Dallas one year.  I was attending a school for the phone Co. and heard there was a contest.  It was early spring and solid cloud cover.  The wind was blowing hard enough that a little mouse racer took off and come to a stop on the other side of the circle about 5 feet off the ground.  It was funny watching the pilot try to land it.  They didn't set up the carrier deck, let alone fly carrier.  Monday morning I was as red a a beet.