Brandon Bolling
Active member
I have not said much lately, been pretty tied up because I just found out that I AM GOING TO BE A DAD!!!!! The baby will be here in DEC. My wife is in good shape....well her shape is changing but she is doing great. I have to do all the things inside and outside now because she sleeps a lot! The baby is the size of an apple and he or she takes a lot out of her. Laundry is bad!!! My trip to Missori to shoot with a former president of Budweiser is cancelled, it was in DEC. Oh well maybe next year. I wanted to originally build a boat, with the news I decided that to build the boat I want, would not be feasible. Then I ran into the deal of a lifetime. A 14-foot fiberglass old school tri-hull and trailer for $125.00. I know fiberglass repair and it definitely needs some, I am not worried about that. I am still trying to figure out what kind of boat it is , pictures to follow for identification and to show my progress. I have never seen any duck boat like it, the mini-cock pit sits in the front of the boat so I can see what I am going to run into, it kind of reminds me of a little Whaler. I plan on using this boat for all types of situations, rivers and dikes, to bay hunting. I have my general plan for the collaspable blind, paint, lights, etc. I do know that I will be mounting a winch on the front, there is small covered area that ties into the cockpit that will work great, I have not figured out how to reinforce this area for the winch. I hunt in a lot of game areas that are set up with dikes and you need to go a few miles down a river and a few pulls over a few dikes gets you where a lot of people can't go, the good spots! I am looking for reinforcement ideas. The other factor in pulling over these dikes is the hull. I want to reinforce the main friction points on the tri-hull so I can drag that baby (the Boat) over anything!! I have seen some sites for Hull-saver, a poly-vinyl strip that is glued with some super 3M stuff that says it is really tuff. Is there something else that I can do? I thought about beefing up the main hull w/new fiberglass, but I was wondering if there was another way, the hull saver is going to be more than my boat, I was hoping to get some ideas, options, from everyone. Thank You in advance and I will get pictures up by the end of the week.
