Boats

Nice quick read with some useful reminders to keep the AIS scourge out of your boat.

Details and entry.

Details and entry form here.

Drawing 5 November – Details here.

Friend of ChiWulff Blake Merwin of the Gig Harbor Fly Shop is selling his NRS Clearwater Drifter. Here’s what he recently had to say about the boat in an email – I’m selling our inflatable drift boat. It’s an NRS Clearwater Drifter. Retail $6k+. Selling for $4800. Excellent condition. 17’ long. Self-bailing. Includes cataract oars […]

BOTE recently posted a blog entry looking at some of the differences between their inflatable LONO kayak and rotomolded boats, read it here. I’m guessing the LONOs are a handful and a half in the wind, but there’s much to be impressed by here – anybody grab one of these yet and fly fishing out […]

Now this looks pretty damned interesting; more in the post to follow (above).

Drift boats on the upper Mississippi? Hell yea, they’re great fishing platforms just about anywhere. A nifty read here featuring Collin and his boat recently ran in the Star Tribune. Collin probably doesn’t get looks as strange as we did rowing our red wooden drifter around East Texas lakes a couple of decades back. Image from […]

From the why the hell didn’t I think of that file, urethane paints for urethane-encapsulated rafts via Angling Trade. Attaboy Link Jackson. Image via the linked AT post.

Details here – you have until the end of the month to enter for the 9 December drawing.

A nice build taking a break on the Big Blackfoot; via Wooden Boat People.

Taking a step down memory lane and remembering an old tradition of posting wooden boat pics and links on Fridays; here’s a nice piece by one of the traditionalists still using wooden boats in the NW – Greg Hatten.

Nice overview of Hobie’s 2019 Mirage fishing kayak line from Blake at Gig Harbor Fly Shop.