How did you find your way to this website?
Eric
Eric
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RM Anderson
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Eric,
My dad was not a duck hunter and I took up the sport rather late in life when I could no longer afford trips to Alaska. Because of that, I had no preconceived ideas of how ducks should be hunted. I believe it was an article in Wildfowl magazine where I first heard of sneakboats and layout boats. Having discovered this "new" duck hunting technique, I was quite excited, not knowing it had been around for over a hundred years.
The Kara Hummer was my first foray into boat building but I quickly decided a duck was not worth dying for and my search for a more seaworthy vessel brought me to duckboats.net. RM
My dad was not a duck hunter and I took up the sport rather late in life when I could no longer afford trips to Alaska. Because of that, I had no preconceived ideas of how ducks should be hunted. I believe it was an article in Wildfowl magazine where I first heard of sneakboats and layout boats. Having discovered this "new" duck hunting technique, I was quite excited, not knowing it had been around for over a hundred years.
The Kara Hummer was my first foray into boat building but I quickly decided a duck was not worth dying for and my search for a more seaworthy vessel brought me to duckboats.net. RM
I don't remember for certain, but would bet it was a Google search as I was thinking about building a boat.
Ya i cant really remember honestly. Google i think???
Steve Sanford in 2011! Back when he had brown hair I just got out of high school and was restoring my first southbay duck boat 
Nick Papavasiliou
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I believe I would have found it while googling fiberglass repair, trying to figure out more and more about how my duck wrangler was constructed.
Like some others, I didn’t quite have a mentor for any part of waterfowling. So this forum has been a tremendous help.
Like some others, I didn’t quite have a mentor for any part of waterfowling. So this forum has been a tremendous help.
Like Dani, I'm not part of the criteria you're looking for but duck boats itself was not on my radar but decoys were. So I was originally on workingdecoys.net and the decoycarvingforum, when DCF went to Facebook and then WD.net went down I was lucky enough to have some members on WD mention this place as the last safe haven of using real names and talking about ducks.
Glad to be here and that you have done so much work keeping it going. It's not an easy, nor an essential honestly, job that you choose to do for all of us.
Glad to be here and that you have done so much work keeping it going. It's not an easy, nor an essential honestly, job that you choose to do for all of us.
Google.
As a greenhorn boat builder I was trying to find online documented builds of Devlin’s Cackler 14 which is the boat that I’m building. I couldn’t find anything worthy so I also Google searched the Honker and Snow Goose which are basically larger versions of the Cackler.
When Henry’s Snow Goose build thread came up in the search results I felt like I’d stuck gold and even though I don’t hunt, had no hesitation signing up to this forum. It’s a fantastic resource and I’m extremely grateful that it exists.
As a greenhorn boat builder I was trying to find online documented builds of Devlin’s Cackler 14 which is the boat that I’m building. I couldn’t find anything worthy so I also Google searched the Honker and Snow Goose which are basically larger versions of the Cackler.
When Henry’s Snow Goose build thread came up in the search results I felt like I’d stuck gold and even though I don’t hunt, had no hesitation signing up to this forum. It’s a fantastic resource and I’m extremely grateful that it exists.
James Boyd
Member
Recently joined although I’d been a lurker on and off for a number of years. Looking for boat building info was originally what steered me this way