Help - Boat shoe lace threading!

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As seems to happen to me from time to time, I broke the lace of my boat shoes - (Lumberjack brand, moccasin type) and then compounded the problem by pulling the end out of the lace holes around the back of the foot.

New laces of approximately the same size and length are available in our local shop, but does anyone have a quick, seamanlike and efficient way of threading them around the shoe? I have found this a tedious and miserable chore in the past, but don't want to throw away a pair of fairly expensive, comfortable and secure shoes or pay a cobbler to do it (even if I could find one).

Any advice gratefully received!
 
Had the same problem with mine. My wife has a doll needle - not sure what it does to a doll but it's about 10 cm long, has a rounded end and a large eye that you can get a leather lace through with a bit of fiddling. I managed to thread it round the back of the shoe.
You might be able to find one in a sewing shop.
Sailorbaz
 
Fossil said:
does anyone have a quick, seamanlike and efficient way of threading them around the shoe? I have found this a tedious and miserable chore in the past, but don't want to throw away a pair of fairly expensive, comfortable and secure shoes or pay a cobbler to do it (even if I could find one).

Any advice gratefully received!
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Short piece of wire, with end bent over to form a small eye; thread a piece of twine through eye and tie it off; other end of twine- tie a rolling hitch /timber hitch too if you like to leather lace and pull through.

I got tired of the leather laces catching on protusions and always untying themselves too, so I cut them to a shorter length , tied a blood knot and snipped off the ends- they don't untie themselves now :)
 
Short bit of wire poked through holes, then wrapped around lace and secured with a pair of pliers served as a mousing line, though not without difficulties and several tries before the optimum configuration was achieved. Shoes now A-OK, thanks all! Phew!
 
Ask a woman.

At some point in their late teens or early twenties (as a chap I can't be sure) all women go to a secret training camp where they learn to thread the elastic round swimming trunks, fit duvet covers, ask directions and so on. Deck shoe lace threading is almost certainly on the list.
 
Chatham used to sell a tool to do the job. Like a short blunt knitting needle but hollow at the other end. You screw the new lace into the hollow end and then thread. works very well, but not sure if you can still get it.
 
Tranona said:
Chatham used to sell a tool to do the job. Like a short blunt knitting needle but hollow at the other end. You screw the new lace into the hollow end and then thread. works very well, but not sure if you can still get it.
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As I linked to in post #5 above.
 
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