Patent ID: 7421971

Claim:
A rowing shoe system for use by a rower in a racing boat comprising: a footboard adapted to be secured in a boat; a rigid mounting plate secured to the footboard; a pair of shoe liners sized to receive the feet of a rower, the shoe liners having a flexible exterior surface and a flexible interior surface configured to fit over substantially the entire foot of the rower; and a pair of shoe shells each having a toe portion and a heel portion, each of the shoe shells being detachably securable near the toe portion to the mounting plate in a rowing position, the heel portion of each of the shoe shells being unsecured to the mounting plate and footboard and including an adjustment strap to accommodate shoe liners of different foot sizes, the shoe shells having an interior sized to receive the flexible shoe liners, the shoe shells having openings therein to ventilate the rower's feet, the shoe liners being removable from the shoe shells.