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Thinking of doing some fishing out of my Higbee style sneak box. Have motor and oars Thinking of placing a seat across from cockpit coming to cockpit coating. Would like to see some other folks? attempts Once the season is over and the dodger and vegetation comes off it seems a sin not to use it...

i have a beaver tail blind for my 18 foot boat. I intend to do more early season puddle duck shooting and want to inhance the camo. Problem is the camo must fold up so you can roll the canvas up to transport the boat. Cat tails or other hard stick type is out of the question. I thought of only...

ive always used a small outboard motor with a self contained gas tank. I’ve now purchased an 8 hp engine and it has a remote tank. I am concerned with putting a gas tank under the deck on my fiberglass Higbee sneakbox. Do I have to worry about gas vapor accumulating belowdecks? I would not want...

when I rig for open water divers I use my larger boat and put out about 90 B.B.,cans and bufflehead. I also have a 12 foot Higbee style B.B. sneak box. I hunt alone without a dog and like to use it, especially in the evening, to shoot hidden along the shore. My question is how many and what...

expanding the diver rig this year. Now use lines with 100feet between first and last decoy. Put a dozen decks on each line. Will need to put out six lines this year and think it might be too " wide". Should I use fewer lines and put more decoys on each line.....use longer(over 100 feet between...

For Fathers Day I went camping with my sons and grandchildren to Southaven Park on Long Island NY. I was proud to see this poster re. a duck blind built for Wounded Warriers. Great job South Shore Waterfowlers

Have been studying some of your tutorials for painting divers. I am impressed with the smoothness of your paint lines. I restless coat with sifted sawdust and the best I can do looks like I'm painting with a rake. I have been using cheap "chip" brushes and some smaller round brushes. I am...

These are of the solid scoter I made from foam I got from Tractor Supply. Blocks are big and pretty solid. I cut them on a hot wire I made. The foam, two dekes from one block, is glued to a belly board. I used wood glue, the same glue I used to Restle coat the finished blocks. I cut again...

Can't sleep,thought I'd teach myself to post pictures. These are three pics of the sleds I made. Made them out of sign board, the stuff you see on the side of the road at election time. Very light weight. I added a groove they would sit in and used expanding gorilla glue to lock them in. Much...

Although I used sleds many years ago I have forgotten how I rigged them. I know I want to put them on individual lines, long enough to clip them onto the long line without having to lift them out of the nest. I'll use long line clips to clip them on the long line My big question is how to...

I live on a bulkheaded property where the waterway go down to 3-4 feet below the bulkhead top. Getting into a canoe, rowboat or even the sneakbox is a dicy situation. I've been thinking of putting in a floating dock I could stand on and enter and exit the boats from there. I've been told that 4...

I have been using a rough wood rasp for shaping my styrofoam blocks. Fast but rough,sometime knocking more off than I expected. I also find it doesn't work well on closer work. The rasp is rounded on one side and flat on the other. Any recommendations for getting a smoother surface. These are...

I've read that people thin out the second coat of glue when they flock framers. I am using wood glue and sawdust. My question is what ratio do you thin for the second coat? Second question, I read that some people flock with paint instead of glue. Which is better? What kind of paint,latex or...

I have a 1984 Higbee sneak box. When I bought it , it had no oar locks. It did have a "scar" on the top of the solid decoy rack where a oar lock could have been was was covered over. I drilled out he scar and installed two galvanized piped through the holes into the foam below. I installed...

Recently went to a restaurant with a fancy exterior walls. They looked like concrete. Someone had backed up and damaged a section. It was foam underneath. Over the foam there was a cloth product and the external covering. Anyone know what the process is. Looked like it could be used to make...

The boat blind has a 60 hp Mercury. The beaver tail blind does not completely cover the motor and I've been thinking of hunting with the blind down,especially for seaducks. I've also been thinking of building a low blind, covered with grass or cedar and would like the motor to match. I do not...

I hunt in an area where I am as likely to see either divers or scoter. I used to rig out for both but felt then that neither were decoying well. I switched to just rigging for one, usually made the wrong decision. When I put out the diver rig , I saw more scoter and vise versa. I used to put...

When you shoot open water out of your sneak box, sort of like a layout boat. Do you use a dodger. If not do you lie there with your eyebrows at combing height or sit higher. I feel more comfortable siting higher. Usually keep my elbows on the side deck. My head is still much lower than the...

Last year I repainted all my hens. Didn't like the way they came out. Paint was much too light, almost a Carmel and the flat paint wasn't that flat. Could someone recommend a Lowes paint or brand name paint that is suitable for the dark color on the hen. I never get it right and that is why...

I would love to add a real layout boat to my marina but the Admiral has had enough with my boats already. I really have more than I should. I have an 18 foot side console Crestliner to use as a mother boat. I thought I would be using my Higbee BB Sneakbox as a layout but it hasn't worked out...