On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:22:54 -0600, cavelamb
wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:19 +0700, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote:

A couple of
hours in those fabric stirrups and you're a cripple.

Climbing boots will not crush even slightly. Cowboy boots are designed
to go in stirrups.

Casady

You are NOT wearing those on MY deck, sonny!
Two things. Leather doesn't mark decks. and:
I am not going up any mast unless it is a matter of life and death. At
that point you will be glad it is me and not you and I will be glad I
had them in my luggage.

Casady