Shore Rig - how do you dress when going ashore?

[Babylon]

Do you change for runs shore - whether smart or casual - or rock up as a sailing gear consumer in branded clothing, technical layers, deck-shoes, sea-boots, wanky caps, etc.

Me, I like to wear a normal jacket or anorak, street-shoes, that sort of thing, and certainly wouldn't wreck deck shoes (again!) by wearing the soft soles down on asphalt.

 

[Twister_Ken]

How do I dress when going ashore? Badly. Same as usual.

 

[dylanwinter]

just a blazer and cravat as usual, pink trousers, sandals with socks. I think it a narrow line to tread. One does not want to be too formal but on the other hand one does not want to let the staff down. You owe it to the little people to look a bit of the part

D

 

[Seajet]

In our teens we used to have clothes we thought smarter or trendier for ' pulling ' purposes when ashore; naturally this failed 99% of the time, though St Helier proved to have an excellent ratio of lonely young ladies...

I remember taking a couple of only slightly sailing, very street & club - minded friends along when one asked my regular crew about the boat

' Have you got any flares ? '

' No but I've got a mean pair of turn-ups '

True...

 

[mainsail1]

just a blazer and cravat as usual, pink trousers, sandals with socks. I think it a narrow line to tread. One does not want to be too formal but on the other hand one does not want to let the staff down. You owe it to the little people to look a bit of the part

D

Spot on, Dylan, except you have forgotten the girl half your age draped on your arm.

 

[Poignard]

"Shore Rig - how do you dress when going ashore? "

It depends where 'ashore' is. When one is abroad, one always wants to impress upon Johnny Foreigner an awareness of his inferiority so a white suit and solar topee would be de rigeur.

At Cowes, if one is unsure, a discreet word with the secretary of the RYS soon resolves any doubts.

Traditionally, of course, one would have expected one's manservant to attend to these matters but things are not what they were and it is almost impossible to obtain trained staff nowadays.

 

[jbweston]

As when sailing except I take my handbag. On my left arm if I'm looking to meet a motorboater and on my right if I want a yottie.

 

[prv]

Do you change for runs shore - whether smart or casual - or rock up as a sailing gear consumer in branded clothing, technical layers, deck-shoes, sea-boots, wanky caps, etc.

I don't wear "branded clothing, technical layers, deck-shoes, sea-boots, wanky caps, etc" at sea, so I'm certainly not going to put them on to go ashore

Nevertheless, frayed hiking trousers, Decathlon trekking trainers, old t-shirt, and either slightly ripped fleece or stained canvas smock are not really my look in town, so yes I do have the concept of "shore rig". Just my normal day-to-day jeans, casual shirt, and shoes.

Pete

 

[capnsensible]

I got a simple plan for shoes.

One black pair for weddings and funerals, Pussers issue, left over from RN days.

The other pair are deck shoes that I wear until they fall to bits and then get new ones.

 

[ANDY123]

Full foul weather gear.....I live and sail in Cumbria

 

[Babylon]

just a blazer and cravat as usual, pink trousers, sandals with socks. I think it a narrow line to tread. One does not want to be too formal but on the other hand one does not want to let the staff down. You owe it to the little people to look a bit of the part

d

trope alert!

 

[[70521]]

My usual; stuff so people can't see I am an impoverished yachts person.

 

[jac]

Jeans, ordinary shirt but might have mid layer jacket on if required to save having another jacket cluttering the boat up
Tend to wear old deck shoes that have lost most of their grip when near boat but not sailing and save newer ones with grip for underway. Means I can wonder across others decks without feeling guilty about what my shore shoes are doing to their decks.

 

[duncan99210]

Whatever I happen to be wearing on the boat at the time we decide to go ashore, unless decreed otherwise by SWMBO.

 

[exMNSailor]

To the right.

 

[prv]

Means I can wonder across others decks without feeling guilty about what my shore shoes are doing to their decks.

Since we stopped wearing nailed boots and shoes with metal bits on the heels, and practically all shoe soles are now synthetic rubber, I'm not convinced it makes much difference. What's likely to damage or stain a deck is debris or dirt picked up while walking around town, and that applies whether you're wearing ordinary shore shoes or yachtie piss-catchers (thanks to whoever's missus on the other thread for the term ).

Pete

 

[flaming]

or rock up as a sailing gear consumer in branded clothing, technical layers, deck-shoes, sea-boots, wanky caps, etc.

It's like you know me.

 

[BrianH]

Since we stopped wearing nailed boots and shoes with metal bits on the heels, and practically all shoe soles are now synthetic rubber, I'm not convinced it makes much difference. What's likely to damage or stain a deck is debris or dirt picked up while walking around town, and that applies whether you're wearing ordinary shore shoes or yachtie piss-catchers (thanks to whoever's missus on the other thread for the term ).

Where I sail it is considered poor etiquette to attempt to board a vessel without removing shoes that may have tracked over grit, dirt or dog-doo. But lower latitudes usually mean bare feet on board anyway so it seems to most of us natural enough to shed footwear before boarding one's own or others' craft.

My Jap-ex instilled the same horror of street shoes sullying the home parquet that remains to this day and even more strongly supported by the present Viennese replacement.

 

[Ripster]

Pastel shirt, club tie with pin, blazer (single breasted two button of course), dark slacks, club motif socks and a pair of Churchills. It's important to keep the standards up.

 

[prv]

Where I sail it is considered poor etiquette to attempt to board a vessel without removing shoes that may have tracked over grit, dirt or dog-doo.

Indeed - and I used to be quite fastidious about switching between boat shoes and shore shoes, and not walking around on shore (except possibly a pontoon) in boat shoes. Trained as a small child by my grandad, I think

I've become a bit more lax since owning a boat and realising that my fibreglass decks don't really care; I do generally have a quick check of the soles of my shoes before going on someone else's boat, and would certainly check carefully if they had swathes of beautiful teak.

None of this is anything to do with the type of shoe though, simply where they've been. So strolling around town in your pisscatchers is if anything counterproductive.

Pete