John Robinson
Well-known member
Hi Keith,
In a nutshell I think what I came up with was very close to a Snow Goose, although Andrew who knows more about this stuff than I do, says a lengthened cackler would be more like a mini-Honker due to how the rocker works and such. My buddy with the Snow Goose did notice that my boat takes less water and seems to have more rocker in the bow.
I actually had planned on building a much smaller boat like a Mallard of BBIII to compliment Neil's Snow Goose. Then I kept wanting a little more boat for my own, and had settled on building a Scaup. I actually have bought about five different sets of plans from Devlin. I was posting questions about the Scaup and corresponding with David Clark when he suggested that a Cackler would be better suited for me if I hunted sitting on a stool, as either boat would require a blind high enough above the water to hide my head from the stool sitting position, and that negates the need for the Scaups lower profile.
So I ordered the Cackler plans and then, as I started my build I got cold feet and added one more station and 2" per side. I just moved the chine point out two inches which lessened the V bottom angle very slightly. I also moved the motor aft as Dave M and Andrew suggested, making the boat even more like the Snow Goose plans. I'm anxious to get both boats in the water side by side, they seem to handle very much alike as much as I can tell from memory.
John
