duck boat

djflawless · 10-08-2014 10:47PM #1

With the ducks nearly upon us, I'm going crazy on the web looking up accessories for shooting and new gear etc
Then I came across a yank site that had a few different plans for home made duck boats
Had me thinking of starting a project sometime in the future for next years fishing and shooting.
Really just looking to see have any of ye fellas attempted anything like this?
And if ye have, any pointers/tips?

duckman!! · 10-08-2014 11:25PM

What are ya talking about? A full on build or doing up a ready made boat for the job?
I have a 12ft sea nymph painted a nice green, then throw the camo nets over it and it looks the job!!

djflawless · 10-08-2014 11:47PM

Full on build, nothing that's gonna be seen as majestic on the water but not a blue barrel between legs either

I'll try get the PIC and link it up

djflawless · 10-08-2014 11:50PM

Something like this

goss101 · 11-08-2014 01:35PM

All the ducks in the world wouldn't get me out on a lake in that thing!!!!
we use a couple of bamboos attached to the gunnels with clips and then a few camo nets and use some small pegs/clamps to stick the nets to the bamboos, works perfect for us, deadly if ya can get a few rushes in front of you to break up the boat, although we have it painted camo anyway

duckman!! · 11-08-2014 01:56PM

djflawless wrote: »

Something like this

I saw pictures like that a few years ago and thought about building 1 for small mountain lakes and put a electric engine on it.

Now that I saw the picture......I want to build it;)
Would be quite easy, few sheets of 1/4 ply then some fibreglass(worst part)
It would plenty strong and stable if ya make it wide enough!!

richiedel123 · 11-08-2014 10:47PM

duckman!! wrote: »

I saw pictures like that a few years ago and thought about building 1 for small mountain lakes and put a electric engine on it.

Now that I saw the picture......I want to build it;)
Would be quite easy, few sheets of 1/4 ply then some fibreglass(worst part)
It would plenty strong and stable if ya make it wide enough!!

Friend of mine is making something like this. It's called a lay out boat or something like that. Ya use it is the shallows and lie into it put little net or cover over the opening and put the duck decoys around you. He has it built and fibreglassed. Painting it at the minute. Looks the job anyway

juice1304 · 12-08-2014 01:12AM

richiedel123 wrote: »

Friend of mine is making something like this. It's called a lay out boat or something like that. Ya use it is the shallows and lie into it put little net or cover over the opening and put the duck decoys around you. He has it built and fibreglassed. Painting it at the minute. Looks the job anyway

Any chance of a pic would love to see it, I have been toying with the idea of knocking one together myself.

richiedel123 · 12-08-2014 05:26PM

juice1304 wrote: »

Any chance of a pic would love to see it, I have been toying with the idea of knocking one together myself.

I'll organise one tomorrow. I'll call to him and see it and get a pic. It's very basic made just quarter inch ply cut to shape and all completely fibreglassed. I'll try get a total figure of what it's costing too so you will know if it's worth making

djflawless · 12-08-2014 05:42PM

Been looking up a few ideas on the Google.some good, some bad, some horrifically ugly

But yeah I see their called a layout boat
Would love to see a price after building it all!

duckman!! · 12-08-2014 07:00PM

Something like this would be what I would build!!

dodderangler · 12-08-2014 09:08PM

Genius

djflawless · 12-08-2014 09:39PM

Feck off yer giving me too many ideas
Brains on overload

dodderangler · 12-08-2014 10:16PM

How bout just wade into 2 foot of water with one of these on and your sorted

duckman!! · 12-08-2014 10:34PM

dodderangler wrote: »

How bout just wade into 2 foot of water with one of these on and your sorted

I went looking for picture of a dog dressed in a duck costume to go with yours,
But I found this

Birdnuts · 12-08-2014 10:35PM

dodderangler wrote: »

How bout just wade into 2 foot of water with one of these on and your sorted

LOL - reminds me of a Dom Jolly sketch from years ago where a guy dressed as a mallard breaks into a hide containing 2 duck shooters and proceeds to lecture them on the error of their ways:pac::D;)

Birdnuts · 12-08-2014 10:45PM

duckman!! wrote: »

I went looking for picture of a dog dressed in a duck costume to go with yours,
But I found this

That brings back bad memories of a JR I used to have!!

richiedel123 · 14-08-2014 12:23AM

Here are the pics of the boat I got tonight. The boat is in primer now and ready for paint. The pics show top and bottom of the boat. It's 11 ft long in total but it was made longer to allow room for a dog to sit into it aswell. He has spent about 250 Euro so far to get it this far on materials

duckman!! · 14-08-2014 07:54AM

Nice, good look with it!
You have 2 1/2 weeks do finish it!!
What are you going to do to it?
Are you going to camo it or paint it a solid colour?

djflawless · 14-08-2014 01:31PM

Jesus that's brilliant ritchie
Could be a very possible idea to do.
I really like that sit in camo coffin tho!!

Gavin duck · 14-08-2014 02:36PM

djflawless wrote: »

Jesus that's brilliant ritchie
Could be a very possible idea to do.
I really like that sit in camo coffin tho!!

It's is too high off the water though the whole point of the layout boat is to be low to the water

djflawless · 14-08-2014 05:09PM

Gavin duck wrote: »

It's is too high off the water though the whole point of the layout boat is to be low to the water

Well if it floats and keeps me generally dry arsed..I don't mind how high it sits!
Can always add camo and pretend I'm an island

snipe49 · 14-08-2014 10:16PM

richiedel123 wrote: »

Here are the pics of the boat I got tonight. The boat is in primer now and ready for paint. The pics show top and bottom of the boat. It's 11 ft long in total but it was made longer to allow room for a dog to sit into it aswell. He has spent about 250 Euro so far to get it this far on materials

Great job. I was thinking about making a boat like that for years but never got to it. Did u follow a set of plans. ?

richiedel123 · 14-08-2014 10:37PM

snipe49 wrote: »

Great job. I was thinking about making a boat like that for years but never got to it. Did u follow a set of plans. ?