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Chris, are talking about Rich McCormick's Hybrid? If so, I've built one (though, because of how I anticipated using it I constructed it a lot more heavy-duty than probably most of the ones that get built). Rich has a website, a video, and written instructions out now. He also has a bunch of...

First off, thanks to all for sharing your thoughts. This is interesting. May as well get a price on both styles, but it seems pretty clear the Bimini style is likely to be more expensive. Yet from the response they also appear more useful in most respects. I was also wondering about logistics...

I'm hoping to add a traditional spray dodger to my boat. Is anybody willing to share their experiences (plus and/or minus) with such things? If so, thanks for your kindness in doing so.

Glad to hear he's still with us. Hoping for him to have full health.

I've had a similar question in my mind, Matt, so I hope you don't mind my adding it to this thread. I'd like eventually to get a larger motor for my boat (right now it has a 5 hp, approximately 45 pound Nissan on the transom. My question is this: Let's say I'm thinking of moving up to an 81...

Gary, Don't give up on your motor. Last year I took my '85 Nissan for a tune-up to a Rhode Island gentleman who works out of his garage. He did wonders with my motor, and when, shortly after the tune-up, it conked out he took it back in and got it going again without charging me an additional...

I really like that idea. Any suggestions on where to get heavy duty plastic and the camo 1000 denier cordura material?

Great work, Dave. I certainly looks like a duckboat. Any idea how heavy it is?

Kristan, I had a pleasing experience one morning along the line of yours. We were hunting the saltpond marsh one early morning when a couple of folk paddled a tin canoe into the next cove, and set up. We had no luck, and it was cold, so after a while we got up and walked the shore to...

Dave, We managed to hunt on Saturday. I use the term "hunt" loosely. Mostly we sat in comfort and used the cell phone to photograph the great scenery. We saw at least 40 ducks, but only one got close enough at a time when we could take a shot. As for propulsion on the Kara, if an...

Dave, Did you hunt out of the Kara this weekend? If so, how'd you like it?

If you and your wife like to walk, Block Island has I think about 25 miles of hiking trails, and it's a free activity. Ask around, and you can get a free map on the island. I think the chamber of commerce building right in Old Harbor (near the ferry dock) has them. My wife and I have walked...

Here in Rhode Island there's a salt pond I've hunted each season since '02-'03 (some years more than others). The ''08-'09 season was the first time we took a mallard there, and we started noticing more of them around. In the '09-'10 season I harvested 2 mallards there, and it was the first...

Al, I'm no duck expert. I just got into regular duck hunting about 7 seasons ago. We have a ton of black ducks in the spots I hunt, so I've been fortunate to observe them a lot. Here's a few things I've learned. -They flush at the slightest movement -They flush at a greater distance than...

Good looking work. I've worndered why these days more people don't build the boats in Zack Taylor's books.

Some of the best success we've had up here in Rhode Island has been a similar strategy on salt water. We sit with our backs against a solid object (sometimes a rock, for example) and at times our boots will be right at the water's edge (depends on the tide). No question it works. One day, after...

Quite possibly 5200 is the messiest stuff on earth

Thanks Ed and Ray. It seems to me there's quite a few possibilities here. I'm hoping to be able, come the warm weather, to get out in the garage, do some cutting, sanding, and fitting and to try out a few of these ideas and see what works for me.

i know this has nothing to do with the topic, but you need to have the photo in the thread, so: Has anybody else noticed how the photo of the dog in the picture under Steve Sutton's name looks an awful lot like the dog from the old RCA Victor advertisements?

Dave, I don't think this hijacks the backboard question thread. Quite the contrary, I think it makes it better.