Having sailed in a number of regattas and performed all-day sails using my Oakley Oil Rig® sunglasses I saw it fitting to review them for FloatWays.com After writing the review of the Oakley Dispatch® I realized I had to write one based on sunglasses that are more apt for sailing than for styling around the […]
What Makes a Pair of Sailing Sunglasses Suitable for Boating Use
Nobody likes scorched retinas from a constant beat down by the sun and the glare off the waves. That’s why you need sailing sunglasses. To sail you kind of need to be able to see. Looking up at a spinnaker while trimming can be as torturous as staring at the sun itself. Focusing on that […]
Oakley Dispatch Polarized Sunglasses Review from the Water’s Edge
This is a review of the Oakley Dispatch Polarized sunglasses from a boater’s point of view. As far as raw style goes, the Oakley Dispatch sunglasses are hard to beat. They are not active sunglasses – meaning I wouldn’t use them for a regatta, speedboat racing or for fighting big fish. They are about style […]
The FloatWays Top 5 Worst Pieces of Boating Advice Online
“It’s not what you don’t know that kills you; it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t true.” – Mark Twain Here they are! The Top 5 Worst Pieces of Boating Advice we’ve found online. There is some crappy information out there and these are 5 of our favorites. We’ll start with the not-so-bad […]
Modern Boaters Sailing on Original Topsiders and Cool Canvas Deck Shoes
It All Started with Topsiders When I was growing up boating back in the 1980’s my dad used to say that the only real deck shoe was the “Topsider.” He would cringe if I showed up to the boat with sneakers and would require that I change into top-siders before boarding. According to him, because […]