Hey now, we still had "Clogs" in our Pocock Boats in the 1980's, and Our Maas 2x (along with all the other Maas boats) still has clogs, which I'd prefer to have in all the boats, but for some reason they are not the fashion these days in favor of shoes that are no more than a festering cesspool of smelly bacteria that need replacing far too often and rarely fit anyone who has to use them. Not bad for a private boat where they are the right size for the users and maintained, but shoes are terrible for club use.ancho wrote:Hi, I'm slightly younger than you, but still remember these. Probably the boats were from the 40'sBob S. wrote:...
When I first rowed in rolling seat boats (in the 1940s), the stretchers had brass heel plates and leather side pieces that laced together. It was standard practice to wear socks, so-called crew socks. Fifty years later, when I encountered ergs, I resumed the same practice and wore socks which worked out with no problems at all.
Bob S.
As I was a kid, I used to row with shoes.
Now, I like rowing barefoot eberything up to 1 hour.
What disturbs me is when the heel gets sweaty and slips on the heel cup.
All we need is a clever engineer to figure out how to make an adjustable clog that could be bolted right into the existing hole paterns of shoes and it would be a big winner, IMO.
