Power & Motoryacht – June 2017

36 POWER & MOTORYACHT / JUNE 2017 WWW.PMYMAG.COM

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Put Your Best Foot Forward

WHAT BETTER WAY TO PUT SEBAGO’S COLLECTION OF LIGHTWEIGHT NAUTICAL FOOTWEAR TO

THE TEST THAN BY BREAKING THEM IN DURING A BOAT SHOW?

I

’m what you might call a fi tness freak, and even I don’t check

the pedometer on my sport watch regularly. But I was checking

it now. It was the second-to-last day of the Miami International

Boat Show and I was dog-tired. Racing between appointments

for boat tests and unveilings, christening ceremonies, videos, more

boat tests, product demos, introductions, periodic sojourns back and

forth from Virginia Key to Collins Avenue to cover Yachts Miami

Beach, and hunting down vendors that I-swear-weren’t-there-a-sec-

ond-ago-but-suddenly-are-back-the-way-we-came in football-fi eld-

sized tents, I was getting a workout without even trying.

I looked down at my watch in disbelief. “What does it say?” asked

Digital Editor John Turner, who had been hoofi ng it alongside me

for most of the show. “Ten miles today alone—but that can’t be right,

can it?” I asked undecidedly. A veteran of the Miami shows, John was

mum, producing instead a wry smile and a knowing nod. I stoically

attempted to wipe away the perspiration that had accumulated on

my brow as casually as possible.

What better way to know a shoe intimately than to break it in over

the course of four days, lugging equipment and materials on the docks

like a tropical Sherpa? Warriors, that’s what they are. Calceamenta

bellator. How do I rate these Two Eye Litesides from Sebago’s new col-

lection of boat shoes? A solid fi ve, for the fi ve nonexistent blisters that

didn’t slow me down. Each time I slipped my feet into the pair of $110

gray leather loafers, I automatically felt the memory foam footbed

spring into action. And they were super light, which is normally a bad

sign of things to come, especially aft er an intensive fi rst weekend of

usage—I was expecting the sole to essentially evaporate. Not so with

these. Flip it over, and the bottom utilizes a rubber outsole that pro-

vides good traction and excellent shock absorbtion.

While the other editors sported diff erent variations of the Lite-

sides on the docks, John was rocking a pair from the Cyphon Sea

Sport line. (And for what it’s worth, he really enjoyed them.) I’ll

admit, before the test, I was skeptical of the whole enterprise. I

was fully expecting to leave Miami, checking my pedometer with

dread—oh the pain!—and leaving the shoes behind. I wore them

home. sebago.com U

ERIN KENNEY

BY SIMON MURRAY