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.
 
I concur with that last sentence. Say If want some company one of these mornings send me a text, maybe we can work something out.
 
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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