Should I buy Dubarry boots?
- Thread starter Gixer
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thinwater
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I'm guessing that the soles have already gone hard (become slightly slippery) or will soon. Search the topic. They will become unsafe on deck. Perhaps you can still return them. It's not the money, it is the safety. IMO, old stock deck shoes should be destroyed, not discounted.
roblpm
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OK at the risk of some thread drift what is the alternative?!
thinwater
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Start a new thread!
On my cruising cat boots are not needed (the cockpit is bone dry). If it is rainy and cold, deck shoes with winter-weight (Gill) waterproof socks seem to work down to about 0C for me. For my F-24, definitely deck shoes and waterproof socks when it's cold. Boots are too clunky for me. But I also have the luxery of mostly avoiding cold, wet, nasty sailing, even in the winter, by picking my days. Some spray is common, but if it's all-day rain I'm staying home.
FWB
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Gixer, I am serious about that glue. It will stick the soles back on, probably better than original.
Fixed the soles on my Orca Bay deck shoes.
Fixed the soles on my Orca Bay deck shoes.
MisterBaxter
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Being a bit of a cheapskate I've got on just fine with rigger boots from Screwfix. My current pair were about £40 but they have some nicer ones by DeWalt that are a bit more.
penberth3
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If the material itself is breaking down, which is what happens, adhesive won't work. A complete waste of time.
FWB
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Yes I agree. The stitched soles on my boots were beyond repair. However there is a post above showing newer boots with detached soles. Pretty sure they can be stuck back on. All in all a very bad advert for Dubarry.
Nina Lucia
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Daydream believer
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The only reason to have boots is if you launch a dinghy from a beach, or have an inflatable dinghy where you may stand with your feet in a dip that water collects in.
There is no other place on a yacht that needs the regular wearing of boots.
In fact the extra weight on one's feet can be a nuisance.
There is no other place on a yacht that needs the regular wearing of boots.
In fact the extra weight on one's feet can be a nuisance.
jamie N
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I disagree with that for my relatively wet Folkboat. If one's wearing normal oily's, in my case Fladen salopettes, when one wears docksiders the shoes very quickly become soaked. In one instance having to don my shoes after a few days sailing on the West Coast of Scotland, it was like putting on a pair of cod.
Having boots such as Orca Bay prevents that sensation.
Daydream believer
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Could not be much wetter than a Stella when being raced hard in a blow. I just wear seaskinz socks with my Dubarry shoes. That fills in the gap around the ankles & I never have found an issue. I used to buy Gill sailing boots. They only ever lasted 2 seasons & were like wearing lead boots. When I took them off I was high kicking like a greek soldier changing the guard at Athens High step
Slowtack
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...except if it rains and your wet gear runoff is filling your shoes.............
Daydream believer
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Not really & that is the point of the sealskinz. One does not get wet feet
LONG_KEELER
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I was given a nice pair of DeWalt rigger boots that feel nice but I can't find many occasions where I could wear them. Tomorrow, on Boxing Day, I will go on my annual pilgrimage to the local Clark's shoe shop looking for bargains.
Factoid . Apparently rigger boots were designed for oil rig workers if they should fall in to the sea and could easily kick them off.
MisterBaxter
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I can't help thinking that if you fell off an oil rig into the North sea, the ability to kick your boots off might only make a marginal difference to your survival chances...
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jamie N
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Actually, rig boots are now 'zip-up the side' with laces at the front. Zips for using them, laces for setting the 'right' tension to support the ankle in stopping one rolling over an ankle.
Kukri
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I followed friends who keep their Dubarrys on board and who wear rubber boots for going ashore in the tender.
I am on my third pair of Dubarrys and if someone can recommend a better alternative please do
as don’t think the brand is what it was.
I am on my third pair of Dubarrys and if someone can recommend a better alternative please do
as don’t think the brand is what it was.
Sailfree
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On both mine a wife's the soles went hard and slippery.
Other makes are far better now IMHO.
Other makes are far better now IMHO.
SaltyC
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Mine too....BUT only resoled after 12 years due to problems stated ( reasonable).
Once resoled with 'glued ' soles lasted one weekend before returning as falling apart - the boot company paid ALL costs. Will see how they go.
