Molle panel for wetsuits?

[fireflock]

So I'm here waiting for my Techniflex suit to be built, and I have started wondering if I can add Molle panels to my wetsuit thigh and move pockets back and forth between my wetsuit and my drysuit.

Has anyone done this before? I'd like to find a source for the panel (if one exists) that would sew onto the wetsuit.

Rich

 

[SteveAD]

It is certainly theoretically possible. Whites offers the matrix panel as an option on their drysuits, the two questions I would have are:

1) Will the manufacturer do it?
and
2)Why not just hard mount a pocket onto each suit? As this would surely be a more securely mounted pocket.

 

[fireflock]

Will a manufacturer do it? I wasn't really thinking along those lines. I was thinking about buying a panel (if they are sold) and sewing it on myself.

As to why a panel instead of a pocket - I've certainly thought about just adding some wetsuit pockets but my only hangup is that I wear 2 layers when it's cold, just the bottom layer during transition times, and then just the top layer in the summer...and the reverse in the fall. If I add pockets to both the bottom and top layer of the suit I'm worried about the bulkiness when I wear them both together. It's probably not a widespread problem though.

Rich