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Boat Show Shoes?
I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes
look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
Boat Show Shoes?
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. http://www.sperrytopsider.com/mens_figawi_low.asp Never tried them (I'm a Sebago Docksides guy) but they look like they have good arch support and they ARE deck shoes. $80. dave |
Boat Show Shoes?
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. The only shoes I've ever been able to survive standing on my feet at a boat show in are New Balance shoes...and if my feet, legs and lower back don't hurt after standing in 'em on a cement floor for 4-5 days, they should get you through one or two. I don't know if they make a slip on, though...mine are the lace up boat shoes they make for Sperry. But who says they have to be boat shoes--or even white shoes--as long as they're comfortable and have a light colored sole? Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
Boat Show Shoes?
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Boat Show Shoes?
"Glenn Ashmore" writes: I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. snip Got a Payless in your area? I buy low cut white tennis shoes with Velcro straps to use a "resin" shoes when I'm laying glass. $12-$15/pair. Will provide adequate support for a couple of days at a show. "show duty". Been there, done that, never want to do it again. HTH -- Lew S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland) Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures |
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Lew Hodgett wrote:
"show duty". Been there, done that, never want to do it again. I thought I was done with it when I sold my company...then I had to go and write a damned book! :( Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
Boat Show Shoes?
New Balance / Harken loosely tied will work great.
BTW ... for those boat reps that require NO shoes to enter, consider to show up and tell the salesperson that you are definitely INTERESTED in 'making a deal' ....TODAY. Then from your plastic shopping bag take out and put on a Tyvek cleanroom jumpsuit with hood, face mask, latex gloves, goggles, knee high clean room booties ..... and tell them that you definitly dont want to become soiled/contaminated FROM their 'product' because of all the accumulated foot fungus, sweat, exfoliated foot cells, etc. on the cabin sole .... while you 'finalize' your decision. I think they will get the message. I wonder if their warantee is void if you wear proper boat shoes once you own it? You also could have an artist, etc. 'paint on' a pair of socks on your docksiders .... just as long the paint job matched your tube socks no one would even notice! ;-) |
Boat Show Shoes?
I once invited my wife to spend a week in SF if she would help me man a
booth at the Realtor's convention. She has been afraid to travel with me ever sence. :-) Peggie Hall wrote: Lew Hodgett wrote: "show duty". Been there, done that, never want to do it again. I thought I was done with it when I sold my company...then I had to go and write a damned book! :( Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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There is also the problem that at some boat shows, and on some boats, they
don't care whether you're wearing boat shoes or not -- ALL shoes must be removed before boarding. This is particularly true of the Long Beach and Newport Beach shows, where as many as 25% of the boats being shown allow no shoes of any kind. Just wear snazzy socks and the most comfortable walking shoes you can find and still get on and off easily, I would say. Or maybe you should be "Gellin'," as the Dr. Scholl's commercial insists. ;-) -- Karin Conover-Lewis Fair and Balanced since 1959 klc dot lewis at gte dot net (old -- don't use) klc dot lewis at centurytel dot net (new) "Peggie Hall" wrote in message ... Glenn Ashmore wrote: I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. The only shoes I've ever been able to survive standing on my feet at a boat show in are New Balance shoes...and if my feet, legs and lower back don't hurt after standing in 'em on a cement floor for 4-5 days, they should get you through one or two. I don't know if they make a slip on, though...mine are the lace up boat shoes they make for Sperry. But who says they have to be boat shoes--or even white shoes--as long as they're comfortable and have a light colored sole? Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
Boat Show Shoes?
Wonder why they can't make a deck tougher than penny loafer soles?
When they make you take off your shoes, don't you always get the feeling their afraid you're gonna fall through the deck into the bilge?....(c; I noticed the Bayliner sales staff always makes everyone take off their shoes....hee hee....Wonder why? On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:17:16 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote: I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? |
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x-no-archive:yes "Lew Hodgett" wrote:
"Glenn Ashmore" writes: I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. snip Got a Payless in your area? I buy low cut white tennis shoes with Velcro straps to use a "resin" shoes when I'm laying glass. $12-$15/pair. Will provide adequate support for a couple of days at a show. That's what I'd suggest - I've got white tennis type (I don't think they are really for tennis) velcro closure sneakers from Blair (men's shoes) that I've worn almost to shreds. (Since I don't shop anymore except by mail.) My husband goes to Payless and sometimes finds the women's shoes are cheaper but work perfectly OK if you don't mind the little aqua logo on them. Actually for the boat I wear L.L. Bean boat shoes. For walking I wear my sneakers. "show duty". Been there, done that, never want to do it again. HTH grandma Rosalie |
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Oh, I forgot......I met someone who always goes to boat shows in
street shoes wearing socks with holes in them. He agrees with me that you should always look at boats wearing the same clothes you mow the lawn in so they stop hovering around you like a pack of wolves around a lamb. Many ask him to put his shoes back ON before going aboard!....(c; The funny part is there isn't a boat in the show he couldn't simply write a personal check for in the full amount and it wouldn't bounce Monday morning..... Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? |
Boat Show Shoes?
It suddenly occured to me that the simplest solution MIGHT just be a
huge pair of socks or a pair of tyvek booties that can be slipped on over your shoes easily. Just a thought... Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
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First, bring your own brief case, so you don't balance literature. I
have a nylon one that weighs next to nothing and will hold hat, shades, sunscreen, little tape measure, digital camera, etc. as well as tear sheets and catalogs. Warm shirt, too, if the weather is iffy. As for shoes, I favor comfort over convenience and wear the same five eyelet, Vibram sole Timberlands that I race in -- Newport and Annapolis are better than Miami and New Orleans in that there's less concrete underfoot (Ft. Lauderdale is in between), but I'm always sore at the end of the day, and the short boots help a lot. Sure, I have to take them off when I go on a boat (sometimes I just leave them off and go barefoot on the floats), but it beats being lame by 1600. Jim Woodward www.mvfintry.com Glenn Ashmore wrote in message ... I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. |
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Larry W4CSC wrote: Oh, I forgot......I met someone who always goes to boat shows in street shoes wearing socks with holes in them. He agrees with me that you should always look at boats wearing the same clothes you mow the lawn in so they stop hovering around you like a pack of wolves around a lamb. So very true. The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time of day. Then I changed to Duckheads and a Ceasar's Palace golf shirt and the Hunter people almost kidnapped me. The Hunter salesman cornered me in the head and wouldn't let me out until he got my address and phone number. Still didn't get much help at the Harken booth. I think they have to have seen your picture in a sailing mag before they will talk to you. I hope this year will be different. I have $30K to order hardware, rigging and spars between now and the first of the year and a bunch of questions. I wonder if it is possible to call in advance and arrange an appointment? -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message ... I hope this year will be different. I have $30K to order hardware, rigging and spars between now and the first of the year and a bunch of questions. I wonder if it is possible to call in advance and arrange an appointment? absolutely. They'd much prefer that, usually before or after the show hours, unless it's absolutely dead. A list of what you're shopping for will get them both salivating and sharpening their pencils if you let them know who *else* you'll be seeing. Been there, done that... L8R Skip -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time of day. I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a major airline. Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
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I have found that K-Swiss Verstad Slip-on Casual Shoes with Dr. Scholl's
Massaging Gel Insoles. Are about the best combination of quick on and off while leaving your feet comfortable and supported. even after walking all day on concrete. Jack "Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message ... I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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Subject: Boat Show Shoes?
From: Glenn Ashmore I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. Slip on canvas boat shoes? Capt. Bill |
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Subject: Boat Show Shoes?
From: Glenn Ashmore I hope this year will be different. I have $30K to order hardware, rigging and spars between now and the first of the year and a bunch of questions. I wonder if it is possible to call in advance and arrange an appointment? Just tow the cash behind you in a glass safe with a little red wagon. That should get their attention. :-) Capt. Bill |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:12:46 GMT, Peggie Hall
wrote: Glenn Ashmore wrote: The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time of day. I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a major airline. Peggie This is true. My friend Dan and I went to the little Charleston Boat Show at the North Charleston Coliseum a couple of years back. Dan had sold his Hatteras 56 and wanted a "small boat" with outboard to cruise around the harbor in. I warned him not to dress in his MUSC Doctor's Suit so we could poke around in the boats and be ignored by the hawks. The lawn boy uniforms worked great. We finally narrowed it down to a couple and were poking around in a Grady White 20' runabout with a walk-through windshield and nice bow seats with Yam 150 EFI engine on a nice aluminum trailer. I was poking around in a cabinet when this nice young man came over to see if he could help us. Dan says to me in the cabinet, "What do you think?" To which I snapped my fingers and said, from still inside the cabinet, "Checkbook!" They had a nice discount on it for the show as most Grady-White buyers want a CC for fishing Dan could care less about. He turns to the astonished kid and says, "Can we pay for it now and pick it up Monday from your store on Savannah Highway?" By that time the "important suits" had taken more of a passing interest, about the time Dan and the kid were sashaying over to the card table to complete the contract. The looks on their faces having just lost a $35,000 sale on a hard-to-move boat was.....well.....Priceless...(c; Myself, I thought the grass stained sneakers he was wearing at the contract table went well with the green card table and foldin' chairs....The kid seemed to like them, too!....(c; Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? |
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On 16 Sep 2003 22:47:30 GMT, (LaBomba182) wrote:
Subject: Boat Show Shoes? From: Peggie Hall It suddenly occured to me that the simplest solution MIGHT just be a huge pair of socks or a pair of tyvek booties that can be slipped on over your shoes easily. Just a thought... We could sell them just outside the gate. Or better yet, just inside with the show logo on them. :-) What do you think Peggie? Capt. Bill God, they'd have a kanipshion fit if you SOLD something outside the gate at any boat show around here......probably sic the cops on you! We stopped at the IN-the-water boatshow for a beer with Mr Cannon of Halsey-Cannon Boatyard about his pristinely restored "Boatyard Blue" his yard bought for almost nothing from an insurance company after it bashed up against a bridge for a whole hurricane. It's a nice sport fisher yacht, now, and he uses it to sell his yard's capabilities. The before pictures are awful. The boat show crowd didn't seem to like the "good ol' boy" attitude out there on the docks where the Hackercrafts and Azimuts were rocking in the current....(c; Halsey-Cannon Boatyard, Cainhoy, SC, up the Wando River if you're in Charleston and your boat's broke. It's where Lionheart went the day after it got here...... Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? |
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It suddenly occured to me that the simplest solution MIGHT just be a
huge pair of socks or a pair of tyvek booties that can be slipped on over your shoes easily. Just a thought... We could sell them just outside the gate. Or better yet, just inside with the show logo on them. :-) What do you think Peggie? Forget the show logo...the show won't pay us squat to put their name on 'em. Let's make some money doing the same thing pro tennis players, skiers, and race cars do--get every mfr we can find room for to pay big bucks to put their logos on 'em! You put up the money for the booties, I'll find the sponsors. :) -- Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
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My son says New Balance are about the only brand he can find to fit his wide feet.
(Jim Woodward) wrote in message . com... First, bring your own brief case, so you don't balance literature. I have a nylon one that weighs next to nothing and will hold hat, shades, sunscreen, little tape measure, digital camera, etc. as well as tear sheets and catalogs. Warm shirt, too, if the weather is iffy. As for shoes, I favor comfort over convenience and wear the same five eyelet, Vibram sole Timberlands that I race in -- Newport and Annapolis are better than Miami and New Orleans in that there's less concrete underfoot (Ft. Lauderdale is in between), but I'm always sore at the end of the day, and the short boots help a lot. Sure, I have to take them off when I go on a boat (sometimes I just leave them off and go barefoot on the floats), but it beats being lame by 1600. Jim Woodward www.mvfintry.com Glenn Ashmore wrote in message ... I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. |
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Peggie Hall wrote: It suddenly occured to me that the simplest solution MIGHT just be a huge pair of socks or a pair of tyvek booties that can be slipped on over your shoes easily. We could sell them just outside the gate. Or better yet, just inside with the show logo on them. :-) What do you think Peggie? Forget the show logo...the show won't pay us squat to put their name on 'em. Let's make some money doing the same thing pro tennis players, skiers, and race cars do--get every mfr we can find room for to pay big bucks to put their logos on 'em! You put up the money for the booties, I'll find the sponsors. :) You know, that's not a bad idea! The Official r.b.c. boat bootie! A slip on Tyvek bootie with an elastic ankle band and lots of logos. A box of 200 Tyvek shoe covers with nonslip soles cost $100.00 at Grainger. Polypropylene is $40. For a few thousand pair direct from the manufacturer we are probably talking under a quarter a pair. Two bucks a pair to cover the production, sellers pay and expenses and all the logo fees are profit. To late for this year but we need to remember that for next year's show season. :-) -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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x-no-archive:yes Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote: The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time of day. I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I It's polite to treat everyone with respect. The fact that you do shows that you are a class act. (which we all know of course). The fact that so few people know that being polite and helpful to everyone regardless of their appearance or station in life is a sad commentary on the upbringing and manners and maybe even the ethics of the majority. spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a major airline. Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html grandma Rosalie http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/ |
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Glenn Ashmore wrote: Peggie Hall wrote: It suddenly occured to me that the simplest solution MIGHT just be a huge pair of socks or a pair of tyvek booties that can be slipped on over your shoes easily. We could sell them just outside the gate. Or better yet, just inside with the show logo on them. :-) What do you think Peggie? Forget the show logo...the show won't pay us squat to put their name on 'em. Let's make some money doing the same thing pro tennis players, skiers, and race cars do--get every mfr we can find room for to pay big bucks to put their logos on 'em! You put up the money for the booties, I'll find the sponsors. :) You know, that's not a bad idea! The Official r.b.c. boat bootie! A slip on Tyvek bootie with an elastic ankle band and lots of logos. A box of 200 Tyvek shoe covers with nonslip soles cost $100.00 at Grainger. Polypropylene is $40. For a few thousand pair direct from the manufacturer we are probably talking under a quarter a pair. Two bucks a pair to cover the production, sellers pay and expenses and all the logo fees are profit. Having used Tyvek booties, I would be concerned that they would be slippery which wouldn't be good on a boat. My husband slipped on some aluminum dust that was on his shoes (due to putting in mast steps) and fell down the companionway into the main saloon dislocating his shoulder. Plus were you thinking that people would wear them from boat to boat? They'd get just as dirty as shoes. Even socks are slippery unless you put non-skid on them, which would rachet the cost up. To late for this year but we need to remember that for next year's show season. :-) Not that I want to throw cold water on the project - just a thought. grandma Rosalie |
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Glenn Ashmore wrote:
To late for this year but we need to remember that for next year's show season. :-) Annapolis isn't the only boat show...there are a whole BUNCH starting after the first of the year. There is time to at least test market the idea at one or more of 'em...and Annapolis would be a good place to find out whether Rosie's concerns are a deal breaker. So...where in Annapolis shall we hold the first board meeting? :) Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
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Tyvek won't breathe and will make your feet sweat something
awful....... How about that nice soft material with the plastic soles Cathay Pacific gives out for "cabin booties" on their most wonderful flights from Gatwick to the Middle East and Asia? There's something soft in the soles on the inside which make your feet feel wanted, not all sweaty! On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:24:13 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote: Peggie Hall wrote: It suddenly occured to me that the simplest solution MIGHT just be a huge pair of socks or a pair of tyvek booties that can be slipped on over your shoes easily. We could sell them just outside the gate. Or better yet, just inside with the show logo on them. :-) What do you think Peggie? Forget the show logo...the show won't pay us squat to put their name on 'em. Let's make some money doing the same thing pro tennis players, skiers, and race cars do--get every mfr we can find room for to pay big bucks to put their logos on 'em! You put up the money for the booties, I'll find the sponsors. :) You know, that's not a bad idea! The Official r.b.c. boat bootie! A slip on Tyvek bootie with an elastic ankle band and lots of logos. A box of 200 Tyvek shoe covers with nonslip soles cost $100.00 at Grainger. Polypropylene is $40. For a few thousand pair direct from the manufacturer we are probably talking under a quarter a pair. Two bucks a pair to cover the production, sellers pay and expenses and all the logo fees are profit. To late for this year but we need to remember that for next year's show season. :-) -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? |
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Rosalie B. wrote: Having used Tyvek booties, I would be concerned that they would be slippery which wouldn't be good on a boat. My husband slipped on some aluminum dust that was on his shoes (due to putting in mast steps) and fell down the companionway into the main saloon dislocating his shoulder. Plus were you thinking that people would wear them from boat to boat? They'd get just as dirty as shoes. Even socks are slippery unless you put non-skid on them, which would rachet the cost up. The ones I was thinking about have a soft knobby grip surface on the soles. I got a box for the boat shed 'cause when we were glassing the hull the shed floor was awash in epoxy. They worked really well until the epoxy started setting up. Then the problem was definitely not slipping. It was moving. :-) -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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From: Glenn Ashmore To late for this year but we need to remember that for next year's show season. :-) We! Do you have a mouse in your pocket Glenn? :-) Capt. Bill |
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From: Peggie Hall So...where in Annapolis shall we hold the first board meeting? :) Your booth? Capt. Bill |
Boat Show Shoes?
LaBomba182 wrote:
Subject: Boat Show Shoes? From: Glenn Ashmore To late for this year but we need to remember that for next year's show season. :-) We! Do you have a mouse in your pocket Glenn? :-) Capt. Bill Let's not shut out any potential investors! :) -- Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
Boat Show Shoes?
LaBomba182 wrote:
So...where in Annapolis shall we hold the first board meeting? :) Your booth? Capt. Bill Not my booth, but my publisher's...it'll be too busy. This will have to be a lunch or dinner meeting. Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327 http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
Boat Show Shoes?
Peggie Hall wrote: LaBomba182 wrote: So...where in Annapolis shall we hold the first board meeting? :) Your booth? Capt. Bill Not my booth, but my publisher's...it'll be too busy. This will have to be a lunch or dinner meeting. Thursday or Friday is fine with me. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
Boat Show Shoes?
Glenn Ashmore wrote in message ...
I need suggestions for the best boat show shoes. Regular deck shoes look nautical and you can keep them on while inspecting many boats but they leave a lot to be desired when you have to walk around in them for 10 or 12 hours. Loafers are not much better and you have to take them off every time you board. Tennis shoes have to be unlaced every time you board a boat that allows no shoes. I am looking for a pair of white rubber soled shoes that have good support and can still be slipped on and off without having to tie and untie them while balancing half a ton of sales literature. Go for a pair of the boating sneakers. If they want you to take them off to board their boat, simply say no thanks, and leave. Their is no good reason for them to ask you to remove clean boating shoes. If more people simply refused to take their boating shoes off, they would change their minds, they need people to buy their products. No lookers, no customers. I did this at the Norwark show a few years ago at one of the large sport fishing manufacturers boats. They knew I was representing a buyer, I said no and went to leave. They let me on with my shoes. |
Boat Show Shoes?
Go for a pair of the boating sneakers. If they want you to take them
off to board their boat, simply say no thanks, and leave. Their is no good reason for them to ask you to remove clean boating shoes. If more people simply refused to take their boating shoes off, they would change their minds, they need people to buy their products. No lookers, no customers. I did this at the Norwark show a few years ago at one of the large sport fishing manufacturers boats. They knew I was representing a buyer, I said no and went to leave. They let me on with my shoes. I'm inclined to side with the boat dealers on this one, at least when it comes to outdoor shows. Shoe soles pick up a lot of grit etc...and it's one thing to let the odd one or two people who absolutely refuse to take off their shoes, quite another to let several hundred--even a thousand at a large show like Annapolis or Miami--people track it aboard, grinding it into the deck and carpet. A boat can take more wear and tear in a single show than any owner can do to it in several years. And you wouldn't believe some of the stories I've heard about the things people will do...everything from using the head (and not just liquid waste) to having sex in the aft cabin to changing the baby and leaving the dirty diaper in a galley locker to giving an older child food that he smears all over everything. Anyone who can pay for a ticket can get into a boat show, and a surprising number of people are pigs. So I can't fault boat dealers for doing as much as they can do to protect their boats. Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html |
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