Hey MLBob

[Dave Sikorski]

Was it you that has a Brant II you have disguised as a log for floating the Ohio?

Do you have any pics?

I'm getting ready to turn my BII into a log and haven't decided if I want to go with fabric in old Mossyoak or Trebark....or just get some stencils and a spray can.

-D

 

[MLBob Furia]

Was it you that has a Brant II you have disguised as a log for floating the Ohio?

Do you have any pics?


-D

Dave,

I prepped the hull according to some directions Lou gave me (can't remember what - seems it was just a good washing & light sanding). Painted w/ Pakers duckboat paint (someone had given me a free gallon) and used camo spray paint (flat black with stencils I made to do the treebark pattern.) Fabric covers are shadowgrass. I'm thinking of fabricating some doors for the cockpits to make it useful as a shallow marsh layout that can be anchored most anywhere (mebbye with a small rig of say - frond decoys thrown out around it?
Here are some pics I found in its old and new clothes. A very effective boat for sculling rivers.

 

[Dave Sikorski]

Great stuff!!

I have flip doors on mine that are simply 1x with a pair of brass hinges. There was a strip of 1x pine down each side of the cockpit that is bolted on. The hinges are screwed to the strip.

I think I'm gonna make new doors from conduit this year and use cloth to cover them.

I like your log pattern. I think I'm gonna get some mossy oak stencils and a few spray cans and see what I can come up with.

The rivers I scull are much smaller than yours. The one could never really float a big log, but hopefully the ducks don't know that.

Heck I think I might just have to carve a few painted turtle confidence decoys.

-D

 

[Mike Frechette]

Very Nice