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Classic rail boat 14.5',rough model anyone on the site hunt rails,and does anyone know how to take lines off amodel for a stich&glue boat. thanks,Bill
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I never saw a rail boat before Bill. There was a fellow that made a Mellon seed stitch and glue. I will look around and see if I can find the site. As I recall he made a model to scale I don't remember the scale but it was more than a inch to the foot.He made a frame of wood. On the frame he bent a tag board paper until he had the right shapes. Trial and error. Since plywood only bends one way and very little the other. He cut the tag board with a scissors. Once he had all the pieces cut and they fit together to form the boat. He then built the frame full sized and scaled up the cut paper pieces. Used those patterns to cut the plywood.

By the way how is your Mellon seed coming along? I know you had a good start.
 
Classic rail boat 14.5',rough model anyone on the site hunt rails,and does anyone know how to take lines off amodel for a stich&glue boat. thanks,Bill
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Perry, with a bow like that it looks like it would be great for pushing wild rice.

I haven't rail hunted in a few years, since the kayakers took over my marsh. Tough enough business, then you have to worry about dropping shot on those nimrods hiding in the grass.

I don't how to pull the lines for a stich and glue.
 
Tod: I tried to dublicate the rail boat in the picture,page 131,The Atlantic Flyway,by Robert Elman. I hope Bill Wasson,will coment,being a great rail hunter. best,Bill
 
Hi Bill,

I don't know about being a great rail hunter but I'm one of the few rail hunters around. The regular Merrymeeting gunning float in addition to all of it's other attributes makes a really decent rail boat. You can attach a small motor if you have to travel a bit to get to the gunning flats and then stow it midships and pole. I use a 16' pole and it seems to be about right. There are some pictures of rail hunting on my website www.seaducks.com
I think the old time rail hunting boats that were specialized for just that purpose were in Connecticut. Tod probably has some knowledge of that.
 
I hunt rail but I don't use a rail boat. I use a kayak (I make it harder on myself sometimes that way) and thank god it's still plenty hot down here b/c I've been known to flip the kayak several times in a day. That's a pretty neat boat though. I thoroughly enjoy marshratting (what we call rail)
 

Devlin has a section on how to take measurements off your model for the panels for a stitch and glue boat. Problem is that the model you have is carved, and so stitch and glue might not work for that boat. I'd build a half hull model using Devlin's method and take the measurements. You use mylar film folded over the half hull and trace out the panels. It's a fairly complex process. I read the chapter in Devlin over several times before I did it. Good luck, Bill, it's a very interesting and attractive shape. Hope it works out for you.

Ed.
 
I love em! Especially grilled with bacon, although I quick stirfried em once and that was delicious too. They are a very light meat. Not white like turkey, but definately not dark. Their breast is perhaps as dark as or perhaps a bit darker than chicken leg/thigh meat. And oh so tasty
 
DB we may have to reconsider our marsh-rat hunting grounds.

Ive just read in Reiger's "The Wildfowler's Quest" about the marsh hens on the turtle river (near Brunswick) and the birds there have TWENTY-TWO times the amount of mercury in them that the USDA considers safe for consumption.

Considering how close our stomping grounds are to the JEA plants and the paper mills...its something Ive really never considered.

Time to head south to more... err... pristine waters (if that exists in FLA)
 
well I suppose in addition to being a human barometer, I could be a thermometer too talk about multi tasking...

ick...Someone needs a jon boat that floats...
 
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