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Deck Boots & Footwear

Footing for wet decks, docks and the surf line

Deck boots, boat shoes and wading footwear. Slip resistance is quoted only as the maker states it, with the test method named when they name one, and fit notes come from each brand's own size chart.

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A five-step path for beginners

  1. Several pairs of dark rubber boots on a wet wooden boardwalk beside marsh grass in low sun, seen from above
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    Choose deck boots

    Non-marking soles, heights and sizing, per the makers.

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  2. Man in tall green rubber boots and work trousers bending over a bucket on a seawall, blue sea and rocks behind him and a gull standing nearby
    02

    XTRATUF or Grundéns?

    The two best-known deck boots, spec by spec.

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  3. Man in a straw hat, jeans and mid-calf green rubber boots walking up a pebble beach, pulling a blue and red wooden boat ashore on a chain
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    Huk or Frogg Toggs?

    Two deck boots Amazon sells directly, compared.

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  4. Pair of tan leather boat shoes with rawhide laces and dark soles standing on beach sand beside a small sandcastle
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    Boat shoes or water shoes

    Low shoes for decks, docks and rocky shores.

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  5. Looking down at feet in sand-caked blue water socks below black wetsuit legs, standing on pale beach sand crossed with footprints
    05

    Wade the flats

    Booties and flats boots, and the stingray shuffle.

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