I may have wrecked my boat

Good morning, Phil~


Well, your subject line certainly grabbed my attention!


I think you've got yourself a sweet rig. I added such a sit-up blind (easily removable) to my Sneakbox years ago - so my Dad and I could both sit on spackle buckets and shoot comfortably. It hid very well as long as there was a bit of taller cover nearby. We kept the front flap down until we saw birds - then slowly raised it until we were ready to shoot.



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How do you get in and out? Got a photo of the aft end?


Best of luck with it,


SJS

 
Phil,
Just a bit of feedback from the couple times I've hunted from your boats. I've felt like they were a little too tall for me. I couldn't comfortably see over the blind to gain good depth perception when tracking approching ducks. Granted, it fits you.😛
FWIW; I hope to develope a flip door system for my BBIII. I just need to figure out the transition from a curved cockpit to a straight hinge line for the panels.
 
Steve,

I use to get in ? the back or the side... now, it will be front or back.

I have to cut the bottom of the grass up a little higher as it is preventing the doors from opening wide open. This means I have to reattach all the bottoms of the grass and drill about 200 more holes... LOL... Oh well.

I will take a picture of the stern at that time. This is the before....



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Dave,

It is not my fault that you are vertically challenged!!!! [sly] Honestly the set up for the front wasn't very good. I can only think of 10 times that I have had a second hunter with me In this boat. Most of them were in the first year when I had a regular hunting partner that was 6'2". The issue isn't the blind, but rather the chair. The milk crate& throwable just didn't give you enough height. Since this is about the same height, but an actually blind, not hatch covers that double as a blind... a 5 gal pail would probably work better.

As far as woryring about curved vs straight on the BBIII... Don't... just move out a little bit. I mean, you could fab it out of aluminum, or make a mold, and make it out of fiberglass.. but it won't help you kill more ducks... Oh Nevermind? you are retired and have all the time in the world! [w00t] Besides.. you don't even use your BBIII to hunt out of!!!!! That is your walleye boat!
 
Phil Nowack said:
Dave,
As far as woryring about curved vs straight on the BBIII... Don't... just move out a little bit.
I want to leave the side decking exposed as much as possible so one can walk along the outside of the blind from back to front.

I mean, you could fab it out of aluminum, or make a mold, and make it out of fiberglass.. but it won't help you kill more ducks...
(a) I'd like to avoid using metal if I can, it is an option tho. (b) thought abought fiberglass, was thinking more strip build than mold
Oh Nevermind? you are retired and have all the time in the world! [w00t]
Yes, you are right.

Besides.. you don't even use your BBIII to hunt out of!!!!! That is your walleye boat!
True, this is one reason I am leaning towards a folding blind. Blind down when running, Up for hunting, back down for fishing the afternoon.
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Oh, and as far as being vertically challenged; you can kiss my ***. [angelic]

 
It is about being out . NOT how birds are on the strap!!! [w00t]

I think the same hen Buffy came in to me twice. Once while I was throwing out decoys, and then later but landed too far out...

I have seen and heard a couple blocks wissler, and some big puddle ducks. But they all seem pretty stale and don't really want to show much interest.
 
Looks really nice on the water Phil. Your helper looks a bit more nosy than helpful but I love those pictures.
 
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