Nick Zito
Active member
Curious how y'all handle grasses boats while trailering. My DW15 blinds (newly restored) is very convenient To just roll up for trailering. Also is nice for ingress and egress on the boat with the blind down as the boats shrinks a lot when the blind is up. When I purchased the boat. The previous owner had rolls of fast grass with pvc pipe hangers zip tied to them for easy attachment. Basically they just hook into the nylon webbing sewn all around the blind. Problem is I need 7 rolls to grass in the boat (including the rain cover). What I've been doing is rolling them all up and bungeeing them in the motor well, but it's a real pain in the rear to set them up every time, especially when I'm hunting with someone who doesn't know Exactly how the setup works. Even getting the blind up with someone else proves difficult at times. Also, the fast grass doesn't quite blend in with my hunting spots. Looks more like cattails you me and we either have spartina or phrag in most of our spots.
My question is, I have nylon webbing everywhere on the blind. Is cramming the webbing full of spartina enough for trailering? There's a good number of days we trailer on 95 (albeit I'm probably only going 60mph on it). I'm not sure if the spartina would handle rolling up well without breaking, and the rolling would be against the grain of the grass, if you catch my drift. Also, yay or nay to the rain cover? The webbing is the same direction on the rain cover, which also rolls up separately and clips to the side of the blind (or unzips completely).
Photos for fun and what I'm working with, rain cover and not. Note, resident geese are great to hunt where you can go out in a t shirt and they don't care about lack of camo like me in the last photo.
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My question is, I have nylon webbing everywhere on the blind. Is cramming the webbing full of spartina enough for trailering? There's a good number of days we trailer on 95 (albeit I'm probably only going 60mph on it). I'm not sure if the spartina would handle rolling up well without breaking, and the rolling would be against the grain of the grass, if you catch my drift. Also, yay or nay to the rain cover? The webbing is the same direction on the rain cover, which also rolls up separately and clips to the side of the blind (or unzips completely).
Photos for fun and what I'm working with, rain cover and not. Note, resident geese are great to hunt where you can go out in a t shirt and they don't care about lack of camo like me in the last photo.
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