Adding one to the fleet-!!pics added!!

Chris Finch

Chris Finch

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So after some offers and deciding on what float i wanted. I am going to check out a whitney tommorow. It is all fiberglass. I was suppossed to check it out last week but the storm decided to dump 3 feet of snow on me. I cant wait to see it and ill post some picks when i take some

When can you differentiate between a fleet and an armada?
 
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So after some offers and deciding on what float i wanted. I am going to check out a whitney tommorow. It is all fiberglass. I was suppossed to check it out last week but the storm decided to dump 3 feet of snow on me. I cant wait to see it and ill post some picks when i take some

When can you differentiate between a fleet and an armada?
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Chris, it all depends on the canons you put in them!
Al
 
it is actually a seacoast gunning float which is a beefed up whitney. its in great shape no scratches,gouges or chips and looks like its going to be a great float. now i really cant wait for september to test it out on early season geese.

im waiting for the snow to leave and the sellers friend to bring its trailer back and then im going back up to pick the float up. when i get it ill post up some pics and then get started "personalizing"it. i think ill get rid of the wooden motor mount and might give her a fresh coat of paint. then i need to spend some time figuring out how to use it, haha. but i do have the perfect name for her.....

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Looks good, Chris. Those have a good reputation. I've never been in one, but they are said to be a seaworthy float for bigger water.
 
im hoping i can get good with it so i can bring my girlfriend with her camera and get some awesome pictures of birds

i also got a pretty much new tenny oar and a homemade oar from a great sculler up north. this is my first used "duck" boat and i like that it has some history hopefully i can add some good chapters to her life
 
im hoping i can get good with it so i can bring my girlfriend with her camera and get some awesome pictures of birds
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Chris,

I'm sure she would make a better sculling partner than Bill. :>) :>) Nice find on the boat.
 
If your trying to learn to scull on your own get Lou's video, it was a huge help to me. Or simply bring it up here and we'll play on Rainbow Reservoir.

Scott
 
Chris, don't be so quick to pull the motormount... if you plan to use it on big water, where the Seacoast should be hunted... you may want the insurance of a small outboard.
 
That is a neat boat. When you teach your lady friend to scull I am sure you will take some great pictures...( : }
 
im hoping i can get good with it so i can bring my girlfriend with her camera and get some awesome pictures of birds

i also got a pretty much new tenny oar and a homemade oar from a great sculler up north. this is my first used "duck" boat and i like that it has some history hopefully i can add some good chapters to her life


Good luck on the girlfriend thing. I've been working on my wife since I got my boat. She loves the tin boat, but getting her into the sculler requires a fair amount of persuasion. Something about camo and the risk of getting a wet butt, I think.

Is the "great sculler up north" Donald Oakes? I still need to take him up on an offer to help me learn to scull. I was in the middle of buying a house and moving when I got my sculler, and I think Donald finally got sick of me putting him off. Now it's been three seasons and I still haven't learned.

If a beginners sculling get-together is planned for New England, let me know. I'm happy to either come south or host on Cobbossee Lake or Merrymeeting Bay if you CT boys want to come north. I think we could pull together a camping weekend on one of the islands--scull some boats, chase some smallies or stripers, and share beverages around a driftwood fire. Or we could meet in the middle. Quabbin? Great Bay?
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I want to have a motor mount on it for a 4 horse but im going to remake it.

The girlfriends not afraid of water/mud but she get gets cold easy even though i bought here better equipment than i have but she enjoys going out and realy likes working her dog. Im sure she wont mind as long as its not crazy cold out.

I am going to get lous video but i want it on dvd

I think a scullers/carver/boat/bullshitting get together sounds good. The more i get into duck huning the more i want to meet people,learn from them, and begin to build my part of our history that is water fowling. But how am i going to trailer the scull, sneak, and mud boat with only a single jeep?

Bridgeport is about an hour 15 min away.

The oar belonged too Randy Dow who could scull a whitney backwards.

Im thinking she will get a fresh coat of open water grey, a new motor mount,remove snaps for the cockpit covers, a neoprene boot assembly, a hockey puck plug, and a cedar slat or cow paddocks floor.

Her name will be "Peek-A-Boom"
 
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