duckboats.net Might End Up An Endling

I would be very sad to see this forum fail. I was turned on to it by my late friend Jon Yenulonus. I have learned a lot here. I learned the Steve Sanford painting style. I learned many caring techniques.

I have put some sponsorship dollars forward. I’ll put some more in if it helps keep it alive.
 
Eric Patterson said:
Mark

I agree with your observation that there are a lot of topics that don't come up very often but sure seem to fit. I recall coming across forums dedicated to "tin boats" and thinking I wish they'd migrate here because the restorations and mods they were making were right inline with the type of things members here have done or would find interesting. They probably wound up on FB when their forums died.

If you ever come across someone doing something interesting encourage them to post it here. I think recruiting by word of mouth is one of the best tools we have to keep active membership. People come and go and it will always be this way. But to keep it alive we need new participants and that takes more effort on our part than it used to. People reach for FB groups since they are already on that platform and can find a group where they are already logged in. FB has the advantage of convenience. A case of easier beats better.

All this talk of membership reminds me to say how thankful I am for members such as yourself who have been here from the beginning or a good long while and still regularly contribute.
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I always have, and always will pass along this site.

Was out on opener a few years back staying at a place that housed a few hunters. Was talking around the campfire one evening and someone starts talking about a duck hunting forum he really enjoyed. The more he talked, I knew it had to be your site which it was. I took him over to my duckboat (Hoefgen) and showed him the old Duckboats.net sticker. Small world. He didn't contribute much he said but visited everyday. I told him to join in once in awhie.

Can't recall his name as it was a few years back.

Mark
 
Kevin Puls said:
I would be very sad to see this forum fail. I was turned on to it by my late friend Jon Yenulonus. I have learned a lot here. I learned the Steve Sanford painting style. I learned many caring techniques.

I have put some sponsorship dollars forward. I’ll put some more in if it helps keep it alive.
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I miss the contributions of Jon. You could just tell by his writing he was a down-to-earth hunter with a lot of respect for the resource and was good to the people that knew him.

Thanks.
 
Always will be a strong supporter Eric, and I have to once again say this site has cultivated my interests for years alongside those who I admire so very much like @Steve Sanford and those whom I have met at various events over the years who are familiar on this site have been some truly great people I'm proud to call friends. Got some interesting projects scheduled this fall and as always excited to share both projects, events and stories with our DuckBoats.net family here.

In terms of artwork / apparel I'm all for this and I think this would once again be a fantastic idea to generate $$ for the website. Even decals etc.. I recently came across my father's 1974 club patch in a closet and tweaked the design a bit to share with friends / family.

As someone who is familiar with the world of websites, digital design and up-keeping I can't thank you enough for your time and efforts on the website to make this place what it is today fostered by all the contributions of all the members. This is a unique platform and valuable for all look forward to 2026 + beyond well into the future

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Eric Patterson said:
I went and looked for other waterfowl hunting forums and most are dead.
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This just popped up in my mind, way after the fact. One of the forums you likely checked in on was mostly just one dude with multiple personalities and psychosis. It seems he's quit talking to himself there now, and the forum is 99.9% dead. That was waterfowlforums. I won't invoke his name, as he may show up. Dude was nuttier than a squirrel turd. I spent part of a weekend with him in AR. I went home early.
 
Eric Patterson said:
I miss the contributions of Jon. You could just tell by his writing he was a down-to-earth hunter with a lot of respect for the resource and was good to the people that knew him.

Thanks.
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I miss him also, he always had good things to talk about. And there are many great members today, more so than any other forum I belonged to in the heyday of this type of website. Duckboats has always been different(and much better)because of the way everyone treats the each other. The topics are great, you don't have to be a boat builder to enjoy the boat building threads, you can just be an aficianado (like me). You learn how people do things all over the country, what duck hunting is like in different geographic areas, how the rules are different in different states, and even how traditions, which are key to duck hunting, are different around the country. So if you are here for while you are going to be exposed to everything duck hunting related sooner or later. It never gets boring to me. It's great when a new person comes along and contributes. You can ask and find someone here that will be able to help on just about any project, there is a ton of knowledge available just for the asking. I think duckboats will be around for a while......
 
Haven't been to the refuge since I was called out for not having a certain # of posts even though I had been a member for 10+ years. Don't want to really get into a political back and forth on every other post. I just hunt ducks and like old boats
 
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