I am thinking about this. I'm already contemplating of adding snaps so I can quickly change the camo. I'm thinking of having some grey fabric that will snap on to hunt in more open water, or white to hunt at the end of the season when there is ice an snow.
Fellow I bought my Black jack back from had done something similar with a brown canvas base fabric with grass loops that snapped on to hull on top decks. He hunted it layout style with a grass mat pulled over himself in cockpit, no dodger. If doing it myself I would have used Cordura Nylon instead of canvas just for weight savings and colors/camo patterns available. At the time he did this Cordura nylon wasn,t widely available as it is now.
I was really tempted to paint it battleship grey to try to use it on open water. I'm not sure why, but even the sink boxes that are used in the Lac St. Pierre are painted drab olive -- so I went with that. I have tried Lou Tisch's use of clear polyethylene on layouts, it is not all that easy to handle -- it looks to blow around, but I'm thinking of trying it on the boat for open water.
