Boots

H2's milk and honey lifestyle would preclude his feet from smelling, my bread and dripping lifestyle, enough said.

Originally posted by iGRF A bit like sails, roll them up wet from lake water, they rot, saltwater they don't, salt being a preservative I guess, maybe bacteria have a harder time in saline.

They do.

But...

Dried out salt crystals are not great... Like sandpaper

I was thinking about this at the gym last night - there is some weird culture in dinghy sailing that places pride in not spending cash on things. I cannot think of another sport that people do "seriously" (i.e. most weekends) where anyone would even blink if you said you spent £100 on shoes for the sport. In fact, I think in most sports if you said you went for the cheapest people would think you were very weird. Social insight over and out.

Originally posted by H2 I was thinking about this at the gym last night - there is some weird culture in dinghy sailing that places pride in not spending cash on things. I cannot think of another sport that people do "seriously" (i.e. most weekends) where anyone would even blink if you said you spent £100 on shoes for the sport. In fact, I think in most sports if you said you went for the cheapest people would think you were very weird. Social insight over and out.

You just have to look around at the number of dinghy sailors that wear socks in their sandals.

Originally posted by H2 I was thinking about this at the gym last night - there is some weird culture in dinghy sailing that places pride in not spending cash on things. I cannot think of another sport that people do "seriously" (i.e. most weekends) where anyone would even blink if you said you spent £100 on shoes for the sport. In fact, I think in most sports if you said you went for the cheapest people would think you were very weird. Social insight over and out.

Well someone did say there are more dinghy sailors from up north... And Shots and Yorkshire folk are proud of their penny pinching!!

But actually, in the case of boots, it's perhaps that I don't consider feel "that" important to my sailing. Maybe I should. But I haven't. If I was running a marathon then £80+ shoes seem a good plan... But other than shorts and tea shirt that might be all I need. Yes I can spend £300 on a Garmin watch if I want to, but my phone could do that for me or a £10 stopwatch would be OK unless I'm trying to beat a record...

If I can buy boots for £25 or £100 are the £100 four time better? actually it sounds like they might not last so long, maybe they need to be 6 times better!

I own a £500+ dry suit, a £80+ buoyancy aid, because they had specific features I could justify paying for.