Warning - Deck shoes are bad for you.

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For years, I have worn deck shoes for casual everyday wear, even long walks with dogs etc. Recently started getting twinges in the lower leg and heel area.

Last weekend spent in London, including the Boat Show, walking to restaurants etc, really got painful.

Been to quack today - Achilles Tendonitis - sent off to physio, special exercises for God knows how long - go and buy some trainers with proper support etc.

Oh the problems us super human athletes have to deal with !
 
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This is the same Nick I know is it?

I know I am probably in a minority of one here (nothing unusual there) but I keep my boat deck shoes on the boat and restrict them to boat or pontoon, helps keep the boat clean. Got into this practice after returning to the boat one night after errr, 'treading in something unpleasent', on the way back from the pub. By the time the smell hit, I'd already walked it all around.
 
I have one fairly expensive pair which I don't wear for anything but sailing - a throw back to the old Dunlop blue canvas with white pimples on the bottom. Father used to say we would ruin the soles walking on tarmac etc.

Also have sveral other pairs from non-boaty shops like Clarks which I avoid wearing on board if I have any intention of leaving the marina.
 
Tell it not in Gath but I got a pair from Matalan - v. good, but I ve desisted in walking far in them, because of the lack of support in the heel
 
Nothing to do with the total mass workload being asked of the lower limbs then?? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Get your favourite old pair of brogues out of the bottom of the wardrobe and take them with your damaging deck shoes to your local cobbler/heel-bar and get them to attach the soles of the latter to those of the former. Q.E.D. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Shy talk shall henceforth be known as shitewalk methinks

Damn, just seen that the doggydoodoo post is from Galadriel so consider this post as deleted! No comment your painful gait Nick!
 
I bought a pair once in Key West from West Marine.....

...can't remember the make but they had an explanatory leaflet with various diagrams showing the difference between the shape of a shoe intended for walking and one intended to support the feet when standing for long periods as at the helm.

I must say that my current pair have a somewhat splayed heel and make me feel very comfortable when standing but they are the very devil to wear when trying to keep up with my fast walking wife when ashore. However, when i get my Nike trainers on, she has trouble keeping up with me.

So I have to agree, there are horses for courses in footwear selection.

I have actually kept one pair for on-board and a couple of others for shore wear for many years now.

Steve Cronin
 
I had trouble with the achille's tendon years ago, so wearing deck shoes or plimsols was always uncomfortable, but in my dotage things have changed and I can now wear deck shoes comfortably, but I do need to have other shoes with proper heels for walking any real distance.

My wife got me another pair last year from Millets in their sale, £11.90 from £39.99.
 
Hmmm, I wear deck shoes some of the time, but find decent trainers with proper tread much better for gripping the deck at sea, and much better from the 'suspension' point of view.
 
Bought some Quayside footwear at LIBS.
A pair of their cheapest a pair of posh ones and a pair of wellies.
Man said "Special Show offer £90 , should be £120" I said "No yer wrong add it up again"
"Wha" He said "Yer wrong I said" Calculator goes click click click etc "Yeh" he saId "£90" "Wrong again" ses I . "How der work that out " ses He "Cos I,m only going to give yer £75" ses I.! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Good fun, He made a profit and I was happy.
Don't look like bad gear so far.
I have also used trainers whilst skipping about the boat, yes they grip, feel safe.
Depending which type however, I have noticed some leave marks on the boat. Plus some take in water.
Must admit would not like to treck a long way in deck shoes. Decks is what they are for. As No1 Daughter recently pointed out.
Issued Me with a Large Certificate proclaiming the My bodyparts South of the ankle would challenge the Oudor of most mature Stilton or Blue ,past sell by ,Cheeses!
I had to point out that I change boaty footwear regularly every 8 years and hang the expence!
"Hang em over the side" She said "Then You won,t have to change anodes or antifoul for years nothing will come near"
Cheek of the Youth of today, what? /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
Been there and done that, do your first steps in the morning hurt like hell? but, the pain wears of as the day goes on. Heel pads will cure it over a period of time but, they must be the ones with a hole in the centre of the heel, Dr Scholl used to make them. If you cannot find them buy a heel pad and cut a hole about the size of a 50p piece in the middle. use them all day and every day, it will get better.
 
Here's my equations:
A boat, a wife and two kids = afford no shoes
A boat, a wife, one kid (sell the other) = one pair of shoes (we share)
A boat, no wife, no kids, = I get two pair of shoes
No boat, a wife and two kids = we all get two pairs of shoes and three meals a day
Sod it, I'll keep the boat!
 
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