Hunting Boats

 
 
     In truth, we don't go hunting, in boats or otherwise. But guideboats were certainly hunting boats in their original use. We actually put this page up most because of the cool photo a customer sent in.
     The boat belongs to Teddy Kleisner who was an officer serving in Iraq. His parents bought him the boat a few months before he returned as a welcome-home present. When we were driving out for the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival we delivered the boat to Teddy's wife, Susan, and helped her hang it from a couple of hooks in the rafters of their garage....awaiting Teddy's return.
     Here's a photo he sent in a few months after coming home.

 

    

 
       We wrote saying that the thought of pulling the trigger on the shotgun while sitting on the sliding seat cracked us up....bang, zoom, from one end of the boat to the other. Teddy writes, "The boat is great for hunting, though I never tried shooting from it. A lot of lakes here don't allow boats with motors. However, I can sleep later than other duck hunters and still beat them to the good holes because they're rowing jon boats."
 
     He also sent in another photo we like.......we take them to be sea-lions bellowing on the rocks of Puget Sound....not that we recommend hunting sea-lions.
 

 
 

Stealth guideboat.

 


     
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