My Red Wings (circa 2002) were great at the time, but the next two sets of Bellvilles I got I found to be more comfortable, so much so that I even had one set resoled. I'm on my third set of Bellevilles now and I'm not finding it to be as comfortable, so I end up switching between my second set and my new ones. Maybe I should break out my Red Wings again, although having just looked at them, the soles are pretty much gone and the leather has some cuts from boat life. I wonder if it's worth sending them off to boot FRC and getting a rework.
That was one thing I found to be an issue with the Red Wings...they were pretty slick on the ship's non-skid, especially if there was a remote trace of some sort of POL mixed into the water, which was pretty much always.