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Thanks Eric, it is deeper because pond and ditch box’s for the Jersey coast were built to row in the deeper tidal salt ponds. A lot of today’s style pond box’s are built to be a dry layout box in the marsh.

Hey Steve, you are correct mostly all the box’s were pulled, towed, or rowed to the gunning spot then set in a small ditch or marsh cut out to Gunn out of. The main purpose was to be able to row out and retrieve the birds and decoys down in cape may county they have vast amounts of marsh but the...

Here is a pond/ditch box from my collection of South Jersey gunning boats. This is a 1950 Cape May County Ditch/ Pond box. It is 7ft 6” long & 35 inches wide. It is made out of 1/2 inch cedar sides and transom and 1/8 inch cedar bottom planks. What makes it a Cape may county box is the sides of...

Actually Dave Clark copied this boat exactly and makes them under his company estuary duck boats it’s called the estuary ll

Greg you are correct it’s a 1929 perrine sneakbox!