The layout boat is all done ! I went and cleaned up the rails ,applied another grey tinted gloss resin to the top , rolled on 3 coats of base grey paint inside and out , added a skid resistant coating {beach sand thrown on top of the paint} then gave it a camo wave paint job with several colors of grey and black primer paint
I loaded in the back of my truck and took it down to a flooded drainage pond to test out how sea worthy it is - As you can see my math is dead on , and even with no weight the front rail goes right to the waterline , with my 150 lbs the entire rail goes flush to the water line , I poled it around and on top of some weeds and the steel flex does seem to aid with poling through weeds - It certainly aids with loading and unloading from the truck bead
Dont mind the slight haze of sawdust from making cedar duck decoys , It washes off
There is a shelf on the rear that functions as a head rest and somewhere to stash the dead ducks and keep the shells dry
Here is a close up shot of the skid resistant sand that I added to the paint , this will keep you from slipping on the deck like wet bathtub - Also in the picture is of one of my Florida Mottled duck decoy heads I made ,these will be special decoys and will be styled to look and function like sinkbox decoys I have 2 decoys made so far and will make a few more to make the set complete - Turn of the century sinkbox decoys were made of cast Iron and looked flatter than a normal decoy to lend the illusion of blending in the bend of rise of the sinkbox - My decoys I will make will be set ant a angle and flatter than normal to blend the boat into the water more , I have some vitage pre WW2 handblown glass eyes on the way in the mail - and I will add them to the cedar blocks to give my rig the vintage flair
Old school sinkbox hunters with sinkbox iron decoys , notice how they are flatter than a normal decoybut from a distance the decoy spread/heads look flat and level and hide the sink box - Sinkboxes were banned in 1918 in the US but are still legal in Canada - the distant cousin of the sinkbox is the layout boat now gaining popularity
New school layout decoys by body language decoys/Lake bonnivile layout made of foam with a magnet attachment system , a new twist on a very old and useful device
