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Trip wrote:The blind may work, but it is no where near as nice as say a Beavertail, Avery, or Bert Fleming blind. I see in your signature that you have a Phowler boat and a sd mudmotor that you probably have quite a bit of money invested in. Why not spend a little bit more and get a nice blind on it?

swamprooter wrote:Thanks Dawg, one day we'll have to kill a limit together with our "stick and strings" when the Greenheads get thick!

curcio.....you got commercial hull on your Phowler, a stage 3 and empty hull.............32mph with 1 man on skinny water?.............

quackheadbp wrote:I cant make it any bigger right now, I will enlarge it later.

Anatidae wrote:Here's my wife's 14-foot Jon with blind - that's her sitting in the front seat.



Material cost is around $60 plus whatever nets you come-up with - basically 2 sticks of 1/2" conduit (you can borrow a pipe bender), a package of velcro, a 100' package of parachute cord, some eye-hooks and screen latches, misc. bolts & screws, clevis pins, etc., 1 foot of 2" x 1" aluminum plate glass track and a can of flat black spray paint.

The design concept is simple - 2 conduit hoops (front and back) that fold down to the gunwales for travel, and parachute cord around the underside of the gunwale (to hold bottom of nets) - 2 hoops go 'up' - parachute cord holds top of nets and hooks into eyelets on the conduit (i.e. between the hoops) and it stays up. Basically, 2 hoops connected with parachute cord in tension. Thread cord through net. Sets-up in less than 2 minutes and stores easy and secure for travel.

Here's a better shot of the design concept on our big boat........



Tha rear hoop has its own net that goes over the motor and covers the back of the boat. Just roll the net up on the hoop and secure with velcro strips. The rear hoop actually pivots backwards and rest against the motor during motoring and transport. Does not interfere with operation and steering. The front hoop folds flat on the front deck - no need to secure its net in the 'down' position.

No, I don't have a drawing - it's a concept I've modified over the last 4 boats and can be applied to just about any layout......once you understand the concept, you just have to be industrious enough to come-up with brackets and locate everything in its optimum position. It's really simple and I've done a couple of boats for friends. Every boat is slightly different but the concept is the same.

When I retire, I'll fix-up boats in the Starkville area for interested waterfowlers .......for a fee, of course.