After the discussion the other day I remebered I had some photos from years ago that show one way of grassing a boat. The below sequence shows one way of doing it.
First step find you some stands of grass. Pictured here is Indian Grass. Grows alongside roads and in fallow fields. Very durable. Lately I've been using ornamental grasses grown in my own yard (camo gardens). This season I am going to also use a weed that grows nearby (pics in the future) that I used once before. It has the most wonderful properties. It is brown in color so it blends perfectly when hunting swamps with buttonbush or hiding in tree lines. It is a weed but has a very strong stem, more like stringy wood, is flexible to the point you can tie it in a knot but not break it, and it just doesn't wear out with trailier or treading. Wild cane that growns along the river works very well too and is the quickest to cut and cover a boat.
Cut the grass with your tool of choice. I use garden shears and lawn scissors (see above pic). Tree pruners work on heavy stuff like cane. Yo can use a chainsaw or weedeater too but they sscatter the grass making it harder to keep straight when stuffing under the rails.
Nice fluffy grass covers the hard lines and hides the overall outline.
Stuff handfulls under the grass rails. The tighter you pack the fuller the camo job will look and the better it trailers.
Use cable clamps when you need to bridge a run that is longer than your grass.
As you can see a little bit of grass goes a long way to blend your boat into its surroundings.
First step find you some stands of grass. Pictured here is Indian Grass. Grows alongside roads and in fallow fields. Very durable. Lately I've been using ornamental grasses grown in my own yard (camo gardens). This season I am going to also use a weed that grows nearby (pics in the future) that I used once before. It has the most wonderful properties. It is brown in color so it blends perfectly when hunting swamps with buttonbush or hiding in tree lines. It is a weed but has a very strong stem, more like stringy wood, is flexible to the point you can tie it in a knot but not break it, and it just doesn't wear out with trailier or treading. Wild cane that growns along the river works very well too and is the quickest to cut and cover a boat.
Cut the grass with your tool of choice. I use garden shears and lawn scissors (see above pic). Tree pruners work on heavy stuff like cane. Yo can use a chainsaw or weedeater too but they sscatter the grass making it harder to keep straight when stuffing under the rails.
Nice fluffy grass covers the hard lines and hides the overall outline.
Stuff handfulls under the grass rails. The tighter you pack the fuller the camo job will look and the better it trailers.
Use cable clamps when you need to bridge a run that is longer than your grass.
As you can see a little bit of grass goes a long way to blend your boat into its surroundings.
