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Eric,
My dad was not a duck hunter and I took up the sport rather late in life when I could no longer afford trips to Alaska. Because of that, I had no preconceived ideas of how ducks should be hunted. I believe it was an article in Wildfowl magazine where I first heard of sneakboats and layout boats. Having discovered this "new" duck hunting technique, I was quite excited, not knowing it had been around for over a hundred years.
The Kara Hummer was my first foray into boat building but I quickly decided a duck was not worth dying for and my search for a more seaworthy vessel brought me to duckboats.net. RM
 
I believe I would have found it while googling fiberglass repair, trying to figure out more and more about how my duck wrangler was constructed.
Like some others, I didn’t quite have a mentor for any part of waterfowling. So this forum has been a tremendous help.
 
Like Dani, I'm not part of the criteria you're looking for but duck boats itself was not on my radar but decoys were. So I was originally on workingdecoys.net and the decoycarvingforum, when DCF went to Facebook and then WD.net went down I was lucky enough to have some members on WD mention this place as the last safe haven of using real names and talking about ducks.

Glad to be here and that you have done so much work keeping it going. It's not an easy, nor an essential honestly, job that you choose to do for all of us.
 
Google.

As a greenhorn boat builder I was trying to find online documented builds of Devlin’s Cackler 14 which is the boat that I’m building. I couldn’t find anything worthy so I also Google searched the Honker and Snow Goose which are basically larger versions of the Cackler.

When Henry’s Snow Goose build thread came up in the search results I felt like I’d stuck gold and even though I don’t hunt, had no hesitation signing up to this forum. It’s a fantastic resource and I’m extremely grateful that it exists.
 
I had been to NJ to freelance hunt some black ducks and realized I had all the wrong equipment and the hunting style was completely different than what I was accustomed to.

I saw a couple sneakboats at the boat ramp and that led me down the research rabbit hole that ultimately led me here.
 
I started way back when. I was looking to build a new duck boat and googled boat designs. Then I found the carvers corner. That was close to 20 years ago and the site was new. I think the archives don't even have the old carvers posts anymore.
 
I was looking for ideas on duck hunting. I always looking for a new way of doing something that I have done for 40 years. There is a lot of good ideas. For the young kids, you are lucky. Back in the day, we didn't have the internet in the boat. We told stories, and drank coffee and froze to death. No Sitka, only thing I could afford was brown Carhartt, and I don't even know if it was insulated? I don't even know if they had camo clothing back then?
 
The, "you didn't ask me" response. Google search for sneak boats. Then the addiction began with my first Momarsh Fat Boy after meeting Ira McCauley on the page.
 
Eric Patterson said:
How did you find your way to this website?

Eric
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i've landed on the site several times over the years searching primarily for information on Lund Snipes, and a few layout boats. i actually landed after I bought that elusive Lund Snipe and had put out a query about slot bags trying to expand on just looking at a few brand sites. I liked the discussion I saw, including both boats and bags and asked to join. Glad i did.
 
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