The first boat we built was in 1985 , a design out of my pops head . He has seen enough of them in his time to know what is good and what is bad . He never was much on following plans , he would change most of them anyway . Cedar sides and a plywood bottom was the quickest and cheapest . At the time he was following a dream he had from his high school days . He wrote in his yearboook that he wanted to be a guide for waterfowlers . After the first boat was built he got me on it and in no time we where on our way . My first client was a man from long island , I could not get it through my mind that a man would come all the way from new york just to go railbirding with us . That was just the begining of it ! We built and bought more skiffs and build up a client list that was just impossible to keep up with . The later boats were all cedar with sassafras frames . Put together dry , numbered and took apart . Each piece was treated with epoxy ( west system ) and put back together with thickened epoxy . A lot of work but in the end we patched and painted the first one every year up until we sold it and the later ones got hosed off and they were ready . My last one I made out of fiberglass . I built a plywood form and cold molded it . Two piece , hull and deck . It worked great . I built the hull a little bit heavy , but its the beast . Drag it down the street if you have two . Pop has passed now but not before he fullfilled his dream . He sold the book and the boats after he lost his eye sight , I was working crazy hours and had a family so one of our other guides bought it and promised to keep it alive .
