GENTLEMAN:
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN GREAT TO COME HERE AND VISIT WITH THOSE THAT ARE SCULLERS BUT NOT ONLY SCULLERS BUT DUCK/GOOSE HUNTERS IN GENERAL.
WE are and should be a band of scullers and duck/goose hunters who stick together and visit on weekends and evenings when a story for all to read can be so very interesting and a chance to gather with fellow hunters.
I hate to keep indicating the number of years and seasons I have hunted ducks and geese with over 60+ years on the water as a sculler.
I have had 2 original Nellist Humboldt Bay scull boats and have sold the two this last season with one gone just a few months ago to a new sculler out of Idaho.
The other sold here in Oregon to a friend and fellow sculler.
After my sale of my two originals, I used for well over 60+ years the other I acquired from a good friend about 30yrs ago.
I then began looking for another scull but a single due to my age now at 77 was just getting too difficult to handle my heavier Nellist sculls so instead of watching them sit and not being used I thought it would be good to have some young or new to sculling enjoy the times I have had in these two sculls even as hard as it was to see them go as it was like losing your best friend as they drove away with both sculls.
But Time has passed and i found a single scull that needed some work on the transom and after my repairs and ready for the water I kept looking at her lines like a well-groomed lady walking down the street there was just something there i just could not quit staring at. It was that big bubble under that boat hull that I was not used to seeing. It was that she was so much more of a rounder bottom on that hull where my Nellist were just a little flatter, I kept indicating to my brain that I must or had to use a lot of weight to get her down that I was not used to doing.
Putting her in the water for a check I was ever so right she was nothing like my Original Nellist sculls. Something I was very much not used to even though she sculled great was fast in the water if I needed her to go and didn't look half bad either.
But the whole time I sculled on my Birds, I could not get it out of my mind that it was a different boat quite unlike my Nellist I had sculled all those years and that became part of me.
It was time to make a crucial decision on what to do as the season was getting on the Birds this season were very late on arrival but finally arrived just intime for a few good sculls then the wind and rain came and ended the sculls for some time and plenty of time to decide what I was going to do with this scull. Either keep her and get used to the differ of these boats or find another single or lite double that was easier for an old sculler to handle.
Was I able to find another? A big question mark as boats are getting hard to come by especially for a guy that has been doing this for centuries and looking for possibly something I would not come up with.
Finally, it was time to go down to Humboldt to do my yearly Brant Hunt with my brother. After our hunt the day before heading home I called a cousin, I had not seen in quite some time now 84 years young.
Michael, he said I was thinking on a call to you as we chatted on, he indicated his scull had been sitting for quite some time and instead of getting rid of it he wanted to call and see if i wanted that boat or it was going to be put away forever.
So, wanting to visit I said I take a look at her and see what I think and appreciate that he had thought of me knowing the years we sculled together and my ambition towards sculling.
Back in the early 60 he had a builder build a mold for him off all the dimensions of those original sculls that he acquired from MR William (Bill) Nellist a super good friend of my cousins and one of Humboldt Bay scullers of old times.
Long story short I took that boat as she need some work and put my heart into getting her back to her original use. She was a double but very lite and perfect for what I had been used to all these years.
So, and easy decision now on that5 Delashmutt scull she would be sold. 4 days of advertising her and she got sold to a gentleman in Alabama if you can believe that? as he had been looking for a Humboldt scull.
sold and gone as a trucker picked the Boat up and as we speak is on her way to Alabama. I sold that boat for a thousand and 1600 dollars for the shipment he was a happy camper.
The work began on that Nellist copy and off to the races we went now complete and ready to hit the water if we get the decent weather, we need to hit the open water and kill a few more Birds.
So fellow Scullers Duck Goose Hunters In your spare time come to the site and let's chat a little about your boats or your hunts.
We all need to stick together as one as this art of sculling is going downhill and fast.
Sculler72---------->now 77
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN GREAT TO COME HERE AND VISIT WITH THOSE THAT ARE SCULLERS BUT NOT ONLY SCULLERS BUT DUCK/GOOSE HUNTERS IN GENERAL.
WE are and should be a band of scullers and duck/goose hunters who stick together and visit on weekends and evenings when a story for all to read can be so very interesting and a chance to gather with fellow hunters.
I hate to keep indicating the number of years and seasons I have hunted ducks and geese with over 60+ years on the water as a sculler.
I have had 2 original Nellist Humboldt Bay scull boats and have sold the two this last season with one gone just a few months ago to a new sculler out of Idaho.
The other sold here in Oregon to a friend and fellow sculler.
After my sale of my two originals, I used for well over 60+ years the other I acquired from a good friend about 30yrs ago.
I then began looking for another scull but a single due to my age now at 77 was just getting too difficult to handle my heavier Nellist sculls so instead of watching them sit and not being used I thought it would be good to have some young or new to sculling enjoy the times I have had in these two sculls even as hard as it was to see them go as it was like losing your best friend as they drove away with both sculls.
But Time has passed and i found a single scull that needed some work on the transom and after my repairs and ready for the water I kept looking at her lines like a well-groomed lady walking down the street there was just something there i just could not quit staring at. It was that big bubble under that boat hull that I was not used to seeing. It was that she was so much more of a rounder bottom on that hull where my Nellist were just a little flatter, I kept indicating to my brain that I must or had to use a lot of weight to get her down that I was not used to doing.
Putting her in the water for a check I was ever so right she was nothing like my Original Nellist sculls. Something I was very much not used to even though she sculled great was fast in the water if I needed her to go and didn't look half bad either.
But the whole time I sculled on my Birds, I could not get it out of my mind that it was a different boat quite unlike my Nellist I had sculled all those years and that became part of me.
It was time to make a crucial decision on what to do as the season was getting on the Birds this season were very late on arrival but finally arrived just intime for a few good sculls then the wind and rain came and ended the sculls for some time and plenty of time to decide what I was going to do with this scull. Either keep her and get used to the differ of these boats or find another single or lite double that was easier for an old sculler to handle.
Was I able to find another? A big question mark as boats are getting hard to come by especially for a guy that has been doing this for centuries and looking for possibly something I would not come up with.
Finally, it was time to go down to Humboldt to do my yearly Brant Hunt with my brother. After our hunt the day before heading home I called a cousin, I had not seen in quite some time now 84 years young.
Michael, he said I was thinking on a call to you as we chatted on, he indicated his scull had been sitting for quite some time and instead of getting rid of it he wanted to call and see if i wanted that boat or it was going to be put away forever.
So, wanting to visit I said I take a look at her and see what I think and appreciate that he had thought of me knowing the years we sculled together and my ambition towards sculling.
Back in the early 60 he had a builder build a mold for him off all the dimensions of those original sculls that he acquired from MR William (Bill) Nellist a super good friend of my cousins and one of Humboldt Bay scullers of old times.
Long story short I took that boat as she need some work and put my heart into getting her back to her original use. She was a double but very lite and perfect for what I had been used to all these years.
So, and easy decision now on that5 Delashmutt scull she would be sold. 4 days of advertising her and she got sold to a gentleman in Alabama if you can believe that? as he had been looking for a Humboldt scull.
sold and gone as a trucker picked the Boat up and as we speak is on her way to Alabama. I sold that boat for a thousand and 1600 dollars for the shipment he was a happy camper.
The work began on that Nellist copy and off to the races we went now complete and ready to hit the water if we get the decent weather, we need to hit the open water and kill a few more Birds.
So fellow Scullers Duck Goose Hunters In your spare time come to the site and let's chat a little about your boats or your hunts.
We all need to stick together as one as this art of sculling is going downhill and fast.
Sculler72---------->now 77
