shoes poll

[rc5695]

NO SHOES ALLOWED on my boat! The one time I let someone, it was myu wife's grandmother, around 70 years old. Sure enough, it marked one of the seats and it never came out. VERY hard on the vinyl! Now that my Kamberra has a skid-pad step, I guess I'd consider allowing it, so-long-as they are clean and dont' step on the fiberglass top-side of the boat to get in...

[BensonWdby]

We also ask visitors to remove shoes when entering the house. The deal with shoes is that they get into dog-doo, gum, asphalt, oil, etc. This is especially true in the summer when high temps are likely to allow transfer to the shoe sole. You can make allowances if people 'check' before they get in, but that lasts the first few times and then everyone forgets.

It is true that if people are barefoot in general, they can also aquire these nasty foreign materials, but the odds are in favor of the boat in my opinion.

[jjolson]

Barefoot only

[BensonWdby]

Not crazy - just lazy - Not a big fan of cleaning house...No shoes just makes it tha much easier... Especially in the northern climates where snow and mud are common place and very few people use overshoes..

[rc5695]

"We also ask visitors to remove shoes when entering the house."


Duuuuuuude...when I was working on my Psych degree, I wrote many a paper about you

If I were you, I'd tile the house - I just did.

No worries about anybody doing anything

You wrote a paper on me then too. We also as visitors to remove shoes upon entering our house. We have gotten a little lax now that we've got wood floors though. Down here the red dirt staines EVERYTHING red. Our linoleum already needs to be replaced after 8 years, and that is w/ the no shoes rule... Hopefully going to tile in those areas in a couple years...

[ian ashton]

polls ARE always fun

Thats what she said.


I don't so much care about (clean) shoes on my carpet, but the thought of teh sole of a shoe stepping on my fiberglass makes me cringe, and for that reason I generally request that shoes be left on the dock.

[ian ashton]

Yea, its only natural for people to step off my dock onto the gunnels, they are basically the same height.

[kaneboats]

I step up there everytime I retrieve or replace a wakeboard from the racks.

[jclevoy]

Bare feet in the boat, but shoes need to be stowed somewhere handy. I didn't wear my shoes up to the marina store the other day, and the dock was so hot that I got a 1.5" diameter blister on the bottom of my foot. I actually didn't know that was possible, but it was quite sore for several days after.

[BensonWdby]

20% of our guests step off the deck, grabbing the tower, onto the motor clamshell...