Hooded Wetsuits
Hooded Wetsuits: Winter, Reconsidered
A hooded wetsuit is an admission that you intend to surf anyway. Below 12°C, heat pours out through your head and a separate hood flushes at the collar with every duck dive. The attached hood fixes the leak and changes winter completely.
This is the Vissla hooded collection, led by the North Seas cold water flagship: hooded 5/4 wetsuits with full thermal lining and sealed seams, built for Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the North Sea's better days.
Why an Attached Hood Wins
Every winter surfer learns the same lesson: the separate hood is where the cold gets in. Tucked or untucked, it flushes at the neck the moment a set lands on you, and at 9°C a single flush undoes twenty minutes of body heat. An attached hood seals the suit into one continuous system. No gap, no flush, no ice cream headache rolling down your spine. The difference in a two hour Irish session is not subtle.
What Water Calls for a Hooded 5/4
Anything below 12°C, as a rule. That is the North Sea and the Irish Atlantic for most of the year, Scandinavia outside high summer, and the coldest weeks of a Biscay winter. The hooded 5/4 wetsuit is the standard winter uniform from Thurso to the Baltic. Pair it with 5mm boots from the cold water accessories range, add gloves below 10°C, and the only limit left is daylight.
The Vissla Hooded Range
The North Seas hooded 5/4 is the flagship: cut as a cold water suit from the first panel, lined for heat retention, taped against single digit duck dives. The 7 Seas hooded option brings the same logic at a workhorse price. Cold water surfing is mostly a clothing problem. Solve it and the empty lineups are yours.
