What are the dimensions of your decoy racks?

Paul F Boundy

Paul F Boundy

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I have a Don Warren and a JH Perrine sneakbox. I am going to be installing replacing some rear racks and possibly installing new front racks. What dimensional lumber did you guys use,
4/4 x 6", 5/4 x 8", smaller, larger? I searched the posts but couldn't find any dimensions mentioned.
Thanks in advance.
Paul
 
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Like on a sneakbox? Mine are cedar, planed down to 1/2" 6 inches high, I don't carry my decoys loose, I slot bag them, so the boards just have to contain the bags. I have front and rear racks now, and use every bit of the space!

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Thanks Dave. I've edited my post re type of boat.
You sure do utilize all your cargo space! :>) :>)

I am planning to use bags as well but was unsure if 6" high would be adequate for coastal ll beans for example or goose decoys. Seems to alot of bag showing. Do you tie / bungee them down too?
Thanks again.

Best - Paul
 
Dave,
I just have to ask, is that gray float for one of the spinning decoys that Tod love so much?
 
I've got one of those spinning Decoys. I use it for Scoter . I dont see that it does a damm thing , my son loves it and takes it all the time
 
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Dave,
I just have to ask, is that gray float for one of the spinning decoys that Tod love so much?
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And to think I wasn't going to say anything.
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Tod,

Only because it is not [/font][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica] "February 29th...on odd numbered years..." :>) :>)
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And here I am getting all excited cause I see 7 responses and the first thing I see is Dav'e beautiful boat, loaded to the gills and I wonder to myself, 'why does he have an outrigger thing-a-ma-jig on the bow', and then I see the bright underwings of a "mojo' and I say to myself, 'don't mention and maybe, just maybe, Tod won't see it'........:>)

Dave and John, thanks for the answers and photos, appreciate it.

Best - Paul
 
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I just have to ask, is that gray float for one of the spinning decoys that Tod love so much?
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And to think I wasn't going to say anything.
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Tod,

Only because it is not [/font][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]"February 29th...on odd numbered years..." :>) :>)
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It looks like a finely crafted ass post, I suspect Dave used epoxy.
 
Thanks Dave. I've edited my post re type of boat.
You sure do utilize all your cargo space! :>) :>)

I am planning to use bags as well but was unsure if 6" high would be adequate for coastal ll beans for example or goose decoys. Seems to alot of bag showing. Do you tie / bungee them down too?
Thanks again.

Best - Paul
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Paul, being a displacement hull, I am never going more than 10-12 mph and everything sits pretty still on the boat. In real wind and waves I might have to keep a hand on the stuff I set on the dodger.
 
Dave,
I just have to ask, is that gray float for one of the spinning decoys that Tod love so much?
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Guilty as charged.... it is a Ure-a-duck canvasback. For us it seems to work, pulls birds from across the river. I know when I am out a few hundred hards from the decoy spread, it is the first thing I see. To each his own.... I suppose a flag would work too but I want the focus away from the boat/blind.
 
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It looks like a finely crafted ass post, I suspect Dave used epoxy.
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Epoxy, cedar, mahogany... no plywood in my sneakbox! Though I did use some Azek decking for my coaming so I could screw the snaps into it and not worry about water. The daggerboard trunk is also the decking because I could not figure out how to built with wood and make it waterproof in the slot. Oh, and I used Titebond III as well!

Paint hides many of my sins!
 
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Epoxy, cedar, mahogany... no plywood in my sneakbox! Though I did use some Azek decking for my coaming so I could screw the snaps into it and not worry about water. The daggerboard trunk is also the decking because I could not figure out how to built with wood and make it waterproof in the slot. Oh, and I used Titebond III as well!

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What an awesome unintended double entendre in my post. By "ass post" I bet you thought I meant a forum post written by an ass (AKA HuntinDave - no offense Dave of course since it wasn't intended :) that I was responding to . By "ass post" I actually meant the post for your spinner. I knew your boat was made with the finest materials for the given type of construction, but I was joking about your spinner stand (AKA ass post).
 
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Now I get it... too much cold meds in my system, a little slow on the up take! Yes the spinner float is my own design, and as is typical way overbuilt. Sits too high in the water. I plan to repaint it this summer, and block in some color on the bouys to look more like ducks rather than try to hide them. This season we had so few birds, and not much wind so it did not get used much. It is a wind spinner, no batteries.
 
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Now I get it... too much cold meds in my system, a little slow on the up take! Yes the spinner float is my own design, and as is typical way overbuilt. Sits too high in the water. I plan to repaint it this summer, and block in some color on the bouys to look more like ducks rather than try to hide them. This season we had so few birds, and not much wind so it did not get used much. It is a wind spinner, no batteries.
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Dave

Do you think your lack of batteries will gain you any mercy? There are better ways of attracting the attention of distant ducks IMHO

Chuck
 
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Do you think your lack of batteries will gain you any mercy? There are better ways of attracting the attention of distant ducks IMHO

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Probably not Chuck.... I already was over the line installed LED lights and a battery in my BBSB! Heck, glassing over a carvel planked sneakbox already damned me I know.... if I lived where I could have kept it swelled, I would not have done that either, though safety comes before all else.

Curious what your attractor of choice is? Canvas Swans would do it, and would fit in well here as we certainly have them around and have had them land im my decoys before.
 
Back on topic for a moment... 1/2" cedar for mine. Though when I have them grassed with salt hay, nothing is bouncing out of them.

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Sorry Paul, hijacked your post. The front bags on my picture have some LL Bean and E Allen puddle duck decoys in them and they sit very still though they are a snug fit in there with 2 bags side by side. I fit a dozen on the bow, in 2 6 slot bags. I fit 2 dozen on the back deck in 2 12 slot bags. I keep the center of the rear deck open to reach the shifter and motor easily. In the cockpit I usually have 2 or 3 more 6 slot bags. I leave the deck area under the dodger for my coat, blind bag, heater, etc. All together I can transport 4 1/2 dozen decoys in my sneakbox. Typically when I have that many, at least half of them are long-lined, it is too much work to individually line that many decoys unless I am hunting an area I can walk them around in which is not always the case or the tide.

The concern with higher decoy boards, or any is access back into the boat. How well can you climb over them. Mine are as high as I dare. If I was to go higher, I would also go more robust to handle the stress of getting over them. Mine are easy on and off. The rear boards are 3 pieces, held to the box by shockcord at the oarlocks, and limited in the rear by design, and the front are held in 4 locations by captive hardware, though I don't take them off. Even in the summer I leave them on as they do a nice job of preventing anything falling off the box.
 
Thanks Craig for your dimensions and I appreciate the photos too.


Dave, thanks again, and no worries about the thread being hi jacked. It was an amusing read, partly due to me being "cold medicine" free and knowing right away what Todd meant by "ass post". :>)

Appreciate the input from everyone.
Thanks again.

Best - Paul
 
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