Which deck shoe?

[david_e]

What type of deck shoes do you have and what type of grip do they give?

Last year, after waiting ages for them to arrive, I bought a pair of the new Musto Performance deck shoes. Mainly 'cause I am the bod that does all the running around up front when it is bobbing around and heeling over and I need something that won't fail in any condition on the Beneteau deck which, as you all know, has the lego type surface.

All was well until it got wet and then they slid around like Nigel Mansell at Monaco. So have reverted to another pair of razor cut timberlands but it is not possible to get them tight around the foot and they run with dye and dissintegrate when wet.

Have thought about Harken ones but they are hard to find.

 

[jimi]

Dubarry

Used mines for 4 years now, no problems!

 

[Chris_Stannard]

Re: Dubarry

Here, here. I have Dubarry boots and deck shoes and will have no other

Chris Stannard

 

[Twister_Ken]

Tough about the Timberlands

I'm still using a pair I bought in the US about 12 years back, which are only now beginning to give up the ghost. Maybe the quality has been downgraded over the years?

 

[claymore]

Lumbago Docksliders

Mine have now been declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest
Well if they were good enough for Ted Turner......

regards
Claymore

 

[MADFISH]

Re: Dubarry

The best........

 

[vyv_cox]

I have owned several pairs of TBS and all have been excellent in wet and dry, plus very comfortable. I bought a pair of Aigle trainer-type shoes two years ago after having worn their boots for years on catamarans, they are comfortable and grip well in the dry, but have the frictional properties of ice hockey pucks in the wet. Seems an unusual way to design sailing shoes, but I suppose somebody thought it was logical.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: Tough about the Timberlands

prob is they stretch when wet
no good for dinghy sailing as they just bag out in the direction of the pressure
excellent otherwise
mine are 8 yrs old and have been in more greek bays that aristotle onasis still going strong
my feet are no longer blue too.

This isn't an office, its hell with strip lighting

 

[david_e]

Re: Tough about the Timberlands

Both my Timbers are the nu-buck type. My original pair are over 12 years old and now confined to being slippers, the open transom on the 211 being the culprit, or should I say the stinkies who caused the huge wash, the boat itself was dry even in a sea.

The new pair are OK apart from the the fact that they are not fixed firmly to the foot and the dye will, I suspect, run if they get soaked. (The new pair also squeak when walking!) Looking for something more specialist.

 

[david_e]

Re: Dubarries - Jimi & Chris

Which model and sole? Is it razor cut or the hexagon shape pattern?

 

[david_e]

Re: Lumbago Docksliders

I am sure....but are they any good?

 

[david_e]

Re: Dubarry

I see you do racing, which model & sole and are they up to the job?

 

[tcm]

Re: cheap boatshow shoes

Mine have rubbed the name off inside. Knowing me, I bet they were dead cheapy rubbish ones. But they don't slip, and i do some gardening innem too, cos the rear terrace is all wood. I asked the man on the stand if he had any that wouldn't make my feet go blue, so he suggested sopme brown ones.

 

[jimi]

Re: Dubarries - Jimi & Chris

Do'nt know ... I'll have a look tonight!

 

[Opinionated]

Re: Dubarry

Chatham: solid, non-slip, but with a poor surface under the sole of the foot, makes the ball of the foot ache if walked in for any length of time. NOT slip-ons, you must undo the laces and redo them, to take off and put on.

Dubarry: excellent, I have both boots and shoes, but no support for long meandering around foreign parts, on account of too flat a sole.

Sebago: (seem to have changed for the worse about 3 yrs ago) Good for grip, but stepping-out shoes far superior to cheaper deck shoes.

Best of the bunch: Dubarry boots.

(Yes, I have too many deck shoes - first mate buys them for BDay, Xmas, BDay, Xmas..........).

(I don't have to agree with YOUR opinions, but I'll defend your right to express them).

 

[billmacfarlane]

After years of wearing Dubarry and Sebagos , I tried a pair of cheap and cheerful Chathams. I found them to be at least as comfortable as the other two and the grip in the wet is about the same as the Dubarrys' but better than the Sebagos , which lasted less than a year before they split at the seam between sole and upper.

 

[david_e]

Re: cheap boatshow shoes

I had to do some gardening once last year when I was sacked by my friendly gardener, said he couldn't climb hills and do gardening at the same time. Shame 'cause I was his first customer, seems he learnt well and moved on. I used to put all the kids grandparents up for a couple of nights over Xmas in his little B&B cottage as well. Seems he got upset when the father in law drunk all his whiskey last year, won't have em back again, think the two incidents might be connected.

Now I have trained SWMBO to do the garden, and trained her to paint as well, so all the little rooms that you can't be bothered to get decorators in for (scullery, parlour etc), she has done em, and very well I must say. But like all good staff, she wants promoting, especially now she is 2ic on boat, and has put out an ad for a new gardener. We aren't fussy about what type of shoes so get your cv in quick, she is good to work for I believe. No doubt she will want a new painter as well, but we have one on the dinghy)

 

[claymore]

Re: Lumbago Docksliders

Brilliant

regards
Claymore

 

[pvb]

Wasn\'t TBS one of the shoes which...

Wasn't TBS one of the shoe brands which came out really well in a YM survey/test a couple of years ago?

 

[Buck]

Re: Lumbago Docksliders

So are mine, they are on their third set of soles, I live in them.

Buck

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