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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

Antique or not, great job of brushing that thing up....looks like a duck killer How many can you hunt in it?

Only other suggestion for the boat would be a mortar launcher to get rid of some snows...ha, well done

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.

No beer holders??
Nice boat!
Can you give us a review of your season up there?
Do you still have any birds?

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

Do the camo sides on your boat blind have any stiffeners to stop the wind from blowing them in or billowing?

The sides are a tarp that I stretched loosely from the top of the rails and pop riveted (with a backer) to the gunwales to keep the wind out. I left enough slack to allow for the grass to cradle in it when the rails are folded down. It also helps protect the grass when runnin down the highway.

its great .. if you fish with AL Lender ,,Dontcha know

rate my boat? Everything's a competition these days I guess. Nice boat but then again there's very few duckboats I've seen that I would call ugly. It's a great feeling to restore something on your own and looks like you did a good job.

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.

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

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

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

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...

It's already been mailed. I got a great one lined up for you in '08. Much better than that.