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I'm behind on pictures, but I'm not doing anything interesting yet. I did take it to a car wash and pressure wash off the worst of the lichen and dirt. Dead Grass Green paint from Lou Tisch has arrived, along with his recommendation that I follow Eric's advice and use automotive primer, which...

First, I may need to race you to some brook trout. My 14' boat is too wide to make the push through the thorofare from Pierce Pond to Upper Pierce, so that may be the GSB's maiden north woods voyage. Other potential spots--Lobster Lake; Penobscot Pond; Deboullie, Telos. It's a long list!

This boat might be older than I am, and I sure didn't pay retail! Been looking for a car-top boat for lakes, ponds, and salt marsh spots with no trailered launches.

I have the boat in hand now, and picked up a new 6 hp Suzuki to drive it. Paint on the way from Lou at LS+B. Took her out for a test run last Friday, and the 6 (1) all I want to carry and (2) good for just under 10 knots at half throttle break in speed. I'm guessing I won't get much more by...

I made a couple of rods from blanks as a college student with no equipment--just turning the blank on my lap. Takes a while to get the feel for keeping tension on the thread. Easy Peasy if you don't care about cosmetics. Takes experience to get them looking really good. I used varnish to coat...

This. Ringnecks on freshwater ponds are delicious. "Stinky black ducks" on the coast in January are less so.

Reminds me of a comment a nephew of mine made when he was about 12. (He's in his late 20's and works as a chef these days.) I preprared a duck appetizer--I think it was whistler breast cubes marinated, wrapped in bacon, then grilled with a dipping sauce. "That stuff is great! Of course, if...

Man, do I wish one of these events was in New England instead of the mid-west, Long Island, or mid-Atlantic. Always too far away for me.

Up here, a tin boat that size would be worth more, since it would suitable for carrying in to a remote pond or rough use for clamming or other low-technology commercial fisheries. Fiberglass is too heavy for carrying in and too much maintenance for a clam or worm digger, seaweed harvester or...

As a northern whose only southern exposure was military bases in Alabama and Texas when I was very young and had a bona-fide daughter of New England cooking all my meals, I don't even know what a collard green smells like. (Mom may have the first person ever to make Finnan Haddie in cream sauce...

I believe Huntindave McCann just volunteered--and I personally would enjoy being copied on his replies to those messages. :cool:

I LOVE hunting whistlers because they fly best on snotty late season days, decoy like you dream about, and are so handsome. But eating more than a pair is a chore, so I pick my days and limit the shots I take.

Noted!

It seems that notification would not require further notice in a note.

If the black bags were attached to a spinning wing duck decoy and set discretely in the woods beyond the turkey decoys, would they help attract birds?

This would have been ~20 years ago, in an old house. Who knows when it was installed?

I hear you guys on the paint prep--my questions is what to use for it. This is a 50 year old boat that a friend got when his father in law passed away. It has existing olive paint of unknown age and type, and has been sitting unused long enough to acquired some lichen and moss growth on the...

A house I rented had a propane on demand heater that was wonderful when it worked, but the pilot light was prone to going out and leaving us cold showers. Fine if you check the pilot before turning on the tap . . . . . .

Another option is a heat pump water heater. https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-water-heaters No idea if these are well adapted to the south, but heat pumps for home heating, cooling, and hot water are on a surge here in the northeast. Several frriends have gone with heat pumps for...

Are you priming the whole boat, or just the areas where you sanded down to metail?