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I appreciate the recommendation, as I will at some point bite the bullet and get her coated, but having a spare duck gun in the safe is rather tempting too. I will swing by Cabela's tomorrow to shoulder one and then see if I want to get up to be in line at 5am on Friday!

I have "only" the A-5 Magnum that is my go to duck gun. I hate to see how the salt is hurting her, but she is past the point where I won't eventually have her refinished, and maybe coated in some fashion.... not traditional, but she is my work horse and already sports a composite stock...

I imagine you got them from Josh Beebe? They are black cork, but because they were so dry, I sealed them with Spar Varnish, and then restle coating the to fill in some of the larger voids. I got the bodies in a huge lot of decoy stuff in OH some yrs ago. I still have some dozen puddler and a...

I love the beavertail. All folds to one side, so wide open to work the rig. I added webbing straps to gunnel instead of the travel cover so wraps up at the end of the day do easy.

I made a similar shelf for the D&K Scooter. Well, actually I repurposed one I had made for the Burdick Scull years ago. I added outdoor carpet to the bottom so that is slide easier and would not be wood on wood, or in the original case, wood on fiberglass.

Great! Another project added to my ever growing list.....

It certainly would be, but we are hunting open water, and there is 4 to 8 ft of water on top of the 4 to 8 feet of mud. We never get out of the boat.

When we hunt open water in VA on the tides, we use a pair of 15ft fiberglass poles, anchor poles. These serve mutiple purposes for us; 1. the mud is 4 to 8ft thick, and no anchors have held fast in any wind 2. the use of a pole fore and aft keeps us positioned and not swinging on a anchor as...

I have been using mahogany on my motorboards. Though that supply may br drying up as the friend has been liquidating his massive inventory as he nears 2nd retirement.

That is a scull boat. Looks like a Brant II. http://www.lockstockbarrell.com/

Eric, I currently have 4 boats in queue. 2 are more contemporary, a Wilderness Systems Chesapeake kayak that was crushed, and a fiberglass sneak that was gifted to me that I intend to use for paddle in hunts. Getting in and out of a poke boat in hunting gear is just not safe for me anymore...

This 1905 Dodge and Krowl has been fully refurbished, and took best in show at the SSWA show October 2024. It comes with the sailing rig, and everthing needed to use as a self-tending layout boat. She can be sailed, rowed, towed, or motored. I have towed her at speed, and have propelled her...

I need to free up some of my dry storage for the new projects. I have too many boats that serve very similar purposes. The Sam Hunt BBSB is a wide, displacement hull. This is the first boat I took on, and modeled it very much like Dave Clark's Estuary. You will see several details and...

Tom, I am sure I will be looking for some help from the scooter sailers in the area.... this has chain plates for a stayed mast, and in the bags of sails, I don't know if any of them are for this hull.... I got a bunch of spars, but again, not sure any are for this hull. Heck, even the mast...

Back in August, Maria and I took up trip to upstate NY, it was a dual purposed trip; 1. visit Maria's cousin's family 2. visit Pencil Brook Farm to pick up the Tom Miller duckboat. But then a month later, another vintage hull is posted on FB. It appeared to me to be an Ice Scooter, with the...

Problem is, they still get tangled up whether I put them in a bag or leave them loose in the boat. Mark, storage method is what really dictates rigging in my experience. Early on, I was using plastic decoys with scoop weights. I would figure 8 wrap them and then the scoop with bungee would...