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  • The maiden voyage

    The maiden voyage

    Finally just before Christmas… after 6+ months of disassembly, cleaning, building, fabricating, painting, painting again, installations, trial and error, it. was. time. Me, my two boys, and my dad loaded it up and took it out. This is the first time I even got to see the “stance” it would have in the water. The…

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  • The Build (part 4)

    The Build (part 4)

    Welcome back! I know these posts are long but I am trying to get everything in that I did and my thought processes. Maybe this helps someone in the future with their build.. So the motor and accessories.. The motor had to be mounted on a Bob’s Machine Tilt and Jack. In part 2 the…

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  • The Build (part 3)

    The Build (part 3)

    I started with the outboard engine when it came to painting. I bought used, so I had no problem painting over it. I thought it would be a good “canvas” to work on my stencil + rattle can technique. I started by cleaning it, removing oil residue, sanding down the plastic really well for the…

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  • The Build (part 2)

    The Build (part 2)

    Welcome back! This blog post starts with the motor. I went with a 4-stroke outboard tiller motor, mainly because the guys i hunted with and rode in their boat recommended it after having a few different ones. Seeing that the boat was going to be used for spring time crappy fishing on a North Georgia…

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  • The Build

    The Build

    (after starting this blog post, I decided this cant be done in just one post, so this is part 1) After hunting in Arkansas flooded timber years ago, I wanted a duck hunting boat. I watched all these videos and reels of amazing, cool, decked out, duck boats. I wanted a cool one too, but…

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