Richard Strauss
New member
Hello,
New member here. I love boats. I love green boats and grey boats and all colors of the marsh and water in between. Drive past a Ferrari on the highway, humph, big deal. Drive past a $100 green boat with grass on it and my head swings and the horn beeps and a thumbs up along with a close examination.
Been on boats since I was a newborn and green boats since I took up waterfowling in the 70's. I have 4 I hunt with. Some more, some less. A Scanoe, a fiberglass 3 man kayakis push pole type of boat that I want to make into a scull boat. A 16 foot gunboat with front deck, side decks and clipboards, all grassed, a larger wannabe Barnegut Bay Sneak box fantasy. Leaks a little, I won't fix it cause it gives my friends something to grump about. A 21 foot old Thompson sea skiff style I/O, high sided and big, great for striper ( we cll um rockfish) blues and other finned beauties of open water. Next season's seaduck platform.
I'm hooked on my A5 like all get out,barely adequate as a goose caller, an idiot as a duck caller, even after all these years.
Been on the various forums for many years. I find the bashing, name calling, attacking, trolling, all an insult to the good people who frequent the forums and view it all as perverse entertainment among morons who fill a need to to feel good about themselves by attacking others. Kinda like the way monkeys pick lice from each other as a snack.
I like the forum I see here, the respectful interaction and friendly ribbing and don't want to see it ever change. If you don't ming, I'd like to read your ideas, add my own, ask questions and opinions of others.
I grew up in NY on Long Island, moved to Virginia around 28 years ago. Hunted the Bay on both the Md side and Virginia side. Still do on this side a bit as well as lakes and farms. My heart is in the salt water marsh. I find fresh water fishing ok, kinda fun, but give me my surf pole and a beach or shore and I am in heaven, that is if the hunting season is out or it's Sunday. Give me the purr of the boat motor as we troll an open horizon and my compass course and again I am happy. Off season is maintaining, building waterfowl stuff. I've painted that old jonboat 3 more times in the past years than the house that at places is down to grey weathered wood. Oh, and I can ramble on a bit too.
Nice to met ya's.
New member here. I love boats. I love green boats and grey boats and all colors of the marsh and water in between. Drive past a Ferrari on the highway, humph, big deal. Drive past a $100 green boat with grass on it and my head swings and the horn beeps and a thumbs up along with a close examination.
Been on boats since I was a newborn and green boats since I took up waterfowling in the 70's. I have 4 I hunt with. Some more, some less. A Scanoe, a fiberglass 3 man kayakis push pole type of boat that I want to make into a scull boat. A 16 foot gunboat with front deck, side decks and clipboards, all grassed, a larger wannabe Barnegut Bay Sneak box fantasy. Leaks a little, I won't fix it cause it gives my friends something to grump about. A 21 foot old Thompson sea skiff style I/O, high sided and big, great for striper ( we cll um rockfish) blues and other finned beauties of open water. Next season's seaduck platform.
I'm hooked on my A5 like all get out,barely adequate as a goose caller, an idiot as a duck caller, even after all these years.
Been on the various forums for many years. I find the bashing, name calling, attacking, trolling, all an insult to the good people who frequent the forums and view it all as perverse entertainment among morons who fill a need to to feel good about themselves by attacking others. Kinda like the way monkeys pick lice from each other as a snack.
I like the forum I see here, the respectful interaction and friendly ribbing and don't want to see it ever change. If you don't ming, I'd like to read your ideas, add my own, ask questions and opinions of others.
I grew up in NY on Long Island, moved to Virginia around 28 years ago. Hunted the Bay on both the Md side and Virginia side. Still do on this side a bit as well as lakes and farms. My heart is in the salt water marsh. I find fresh water fishing ok, kinda fun, but give me my surf pole and a beach or shore and I am in heaven, that is if the hunting season is out or it's Sunday. Give me the purr of the boat motor as we troll an open horizon and my compass course and again I am happy. Off season is maintaining, building waterfowl stuff. I've painted that old jonboat 3 more times in the past years than the house that at places is down to grey weathered wood. Oh, and I can ramble on a bit too.
Nice to met ya's.
