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It is in the top ten in the marina Greg!

Jode that is very cool where did you pick that pole up at? My builder was from Bridgeton area

The boat is very light and pushes like a dream !

Hey Rick, I bought mine from my Gunning club neighbor in Poconos his dad bought it in 1940s from a Corson of Marmora NJ. His dad gunned it on neshamity creek pa the it was in there barn from 1968 to 2021. Then i bought it.

Thank you!

With Railbird season a month away let’s see everyone’s skiffs here’s mine it is a 1922 Casper Bass built in Bridgeton NJ this is all original and I am the 3rd owner. The Skiff is 13ft 6 long and 3 1/2 ft wide. It is built out of white cedar. The push pole is original as well and is 13ft long...

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...