hey all, i know this is my first post on here...I'd like to get people's opinions on my duckboat. I know alot of ducks have been shot out of her this season, but I'm always up for constructive criticism. I will say that the boat is an antique. It's an old richline with a 61 johnson...even an antique gas can!!!
Anyways, you can view it at:
http://www.ratemyduckboat.com/boats/index.php?boat_id=15
Let me know what you guys think!
-- Bluewing
Checkout my duckboat
Thanks for the compliments. I can hunt three pretty comfortably in it with a man sitting on the front deck with a dog. More than that and it's too close for comfort.
I used Real-Grass because i got it on sale for half price (Cabela's bargain cave). However, that rips at the drop of a hat. I'll re-do the grass next fall with raffia.
I used Real-Grass because i got it on sale for half price (Cabela's bargain cave). However, that rips at the drop of a hat. I'll re-do the grass next fall with raffia.
Nope, no beer holders...that's for next season's blind.
Our season has been pretty good...seems like the warm weather made the ducks hold up here. Alot of the managed areas in MO reported record seasons for totals and averages. I will admit that the warm weather made it pretty tough to get birds to move.
We do still have birds, they're just hard to locate with everything frozen like it is. This is our last weekend so I'm scouting later today.
--Bluewing
Our season has been pretty good...seems like the warm weather made the ducks hold up here. Alot of the managed areas in MO reported record seasons for totals and averages. I will admit that the warm weather made it pretty tough to get birds to move.
We do still have birds, they're just hard to locate with everything frozen like it is. This is our last weekend so I'm scouting later today.
--Bluewing
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Chris,
Come on. Why not just tell us you are launching a new website and you would like our input. I am not trying to sound like booty but a simple investigation of your websit lists you as the only applicant and you are the only peson who has posted in your forum. Why not just shoot straight and tell us you are drumming up business for your new website.
(disclaimer) I am in no way trying to stir up stuff. But i really dont care what anyone else thinks. I hate it when people do not reveal their alterior motives up front. Just thought I would share this. I do not know this here fellow and wish him well.
Come on. Why not just tell us you are launching a new website and you would like our input. I am not trying to sound like booty but a simple investigation of your websit lists you as the only applicant and you are the only peson who has posted in your forum. Why not just shoot straight and tell us you are drumming up business for your new website.
(disclaimer) I am in no way trying to stir up stuff. But i really dont care what anyone else thinks. I hate it when people do not reveal their alterior motives up front. Just thought I would share this. I do not know this here fellow and wish him well.
Delta,
I'll admit that I am starting a new site...I mean it is painfully obcious. However, I genuinely want people's opinions on my boat. Not only about how it looks, but function and materials selection, ingenuity, etc. I also wanted to share what I learned with others in a more effective way than how I learned.
When I set out to build my duckboat, I spent a LOT of time reading through forum post after forum post and found that there was alot of good information but it was difficult to locate. It was also tough to sift through photos of what people put up on the forums just because of the way forums work. Searching posts and what not made it tough and that's when I came up with idea for the site.
I want to setup an online community to cater to duckboats specifically. I found that I enjoyed working on and brainstorming about my boat just as much as I do hunting out of it. I'm sure many people are the same way. I've designed the site to allow for people to search through boats similar to the project they're working on. Eventually I'll add a "how i made it" step by step section for those really die-hard boat builders out there.
I just launched it last night and have gotten alot of traffic, but i'm still waiting for more people to sign up and show off their boats. You're probably right in that I should have just been a more forward out of the gate, but I can't unring that bell.
--Chris
I'll admit that I am starting a new site...I mean it is painfully obcious. However, I genuinely want people's opinions on my boat. Not only about how it looks, but function and materials selection, ingenuity, etc. I also wanted to share what I learned with others in a more effective way than how I learned.
When I set out to build my duckboat, I spent a LOT of time reading through forum post after forum post and found that there was alot of good information but it was difficult to locate. It was also tough to sift through photos of what people put up on the forums just because of the way forums work. Searching posts and what not made it tough and that's when I came up with idea for the site.
I want to setup an online community to cater to duckboats specifically. I found that I enjoyed working on and brainstorming about my boat just as much as I do hunting out of it. I'm sure many people are the same way. I've designed the site to allow for people to search through boats similar to the project they're working on. Eventually I'll add a "how i made it" step by step section for those really die-hard boat builders out there.
I just launched it last night and have gotten alot of traffic, but i'm still waiting for more people to sign up and show off their boats. You're probably right in that I should have just been a more forward out of the gate, but I can't unring that bell.
--Chris
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Chris, welcome to ducksouth.com! About time you accepted my invite to visit msducks!
I really like your new site. It will be very interesting to look at different duck boat designs, types, camo and setups. Travelling around to different areas and hunting conditions, it's always interesting seeing how different folks and localities gear their boats for waterfowl. Grass camo for reed beds and cattails, military netting and dark mossy-oak camo for woodlands, TDB-type boats for big open water country with plenty room to tote lots of anchors, decoys, gear plus a layout boat or two.
Is that the boat we'll be hunting from when I drive up to visit next year?! Looking forward to it - and I'll bring beer holders for the ride back to the ramp!
Stick around and visit. Who knows, maybe we'll even get you down for the annual crawfish boil or blue-winged teal hunt!
Ps - it ain't much but I'll post a few pictures of my 15ft john boat. Dukbum says it's The Real Deal. We've got another project that involves a 15-20 or so foot fiberglass part boat for use as a floating blind. Haven't quite figured how best to camo and wind proof, but it'll be functioning in 2007.
Ramsey
I really like your new site. It will be very interesting to look at different duck boat designs, types, camo and setups. Travelling around to different areas and hunting conditions, it's always interesting seeing how different folks and localities gear their boats for waterfowl. Grass camo for reed beds and cattails, military netting and dark mossy-oak camo for woodlands, TDB-type boats for big open water country with plenty room to tote lots of anchors, decoys, gear plus a layout boat or two.
Is that the boat we'll be hunting from when I drive up to visit next year?! Looking forward to it - and I'll bring beer holders for the ride back to the ramp!
Stick around and visit. Who knows, maybe we'll even get you down for the annual crawfish boil or blue-winged teal hunt!
Ps - it ain't much but I'll post a few pictures of my 15ft john boat. Dukbum says it's The Real Deal. We've got another project that involves a 15-20 or so foot fiberglass part boat for use as a floating blind. Haven't quite figured how best to camo and wind proof, but it'll be functioning in 2007.
Ramsey
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Ramsey,
That probably won't be the boat you and I hunt out of next season. I have two new boats to work on this summer. One of them is kinda a top secret design that I can't share just yet, but you'll understand why when you see it. I promise that it will be unlike any duckboat out there, no doubt about it.
Post up your boat, I'd love to see it. Call me if you need help with anything, i'm always up for workin on a duckboat.
PS - Shoot me another disk with the rest of that Uruguay footage, I'd just like to see what I didn't get to put in the first video.
--Chris
That probably won't be the boat you and I hunt out of next season. I have two new boats to work on this summer. One of them is kinda a top secret design that I can't share just yet, but you'll understand why when you see it. I promise that it will be unlike any duckboat out there, no doubt about it.
Post up your boat, I'd love to see it. Call me if you need help with anything, i'm always up for workin on a duckboat.
PS - Shoot me another disk with the rest of that Uruguay footage, I'd just like to see what I didn't get to put in the first video.
--Chris
nice boat...... hell until three years ago i hunted out of a 12 foot boat with a homemade blind, killed my share of ducks out of it too...
If it wasn't for bad luck then i would have no luck at all........
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"Its hard to be cool when your battery is dead." Anatidae at the boat ramp with a dead battery.
IN MEMORY OF #10
SCOTT LlOYD
1/8/92-4/5/08
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It's already been mailed. I got a great one lined up for you in '08. Much better than that.
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