The hardest I have seen people laughing is my buddies watching me turn circles and waddle around in a pirogue while picking up decoys in LA. First and last time my skinny no balancing butt is getting into one of those things.
Carolina Counsel
If you build it like a traditional pirogue, your boat will have a bit of rocker. I would stay with a flat bottom for stability. The more you use one, the more comfortable you'll be in one.
Listen to your elders. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Sir Winston Churchill
850C75D7-C81C-4171-A62A-AFF7E7915025.jpg
I stand and push pole mine all over the place. You just have to get used to the primary and secondary stability of the hull.
Living in Moncks Corner but looking forward to moving back to the West Coast in 2020 where there are more ducks and less duck hunters!! LOL
My oldest son from a couple weeks ago. We had a heck of a week of hunting. Both my boys are at home in a pirogue.
Listen to your elders. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Sir Winston Churchill
Pirogues rock....
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
I still don't know how I got all 50+ of those things on my 25ft gooseneck.....
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
If you hunt out of the pirougue spud poles/holes are a must. You can do jumping jacks in them when they are spudded down well.
Listen to your elders. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Sir Winston Churchill
I have a spud hole pirogue. It's the one that always gets left behind because of that damned spudhole.
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
So if a spud pole hole could be incorporated in a location that does not interfere with stacking or normal use that would be the best of both worlds?
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
Kind of like a Stick-It Anchor Pin mount. I stack all three of mine for storage and transport. I couldn't lose that ability just to have a traditional spud pole mount. We usually just anchor them when hunting open water and have never had an issue with shooting that way. You have two choices when shooting from a pirogue......1. learn your limitations on swing so that you don't flip yourself. 2. Learn to switch hands and shoot lefty when the need calls for it.
Living in Moncks Corner but looking forward to moving back to the West Coast in 2020 where there are more ducks and less duck hunters!! LOL
Getting the new hound used to riding early on
465B3436-812C-4AB6-891E-1A64FEA87CB5.jpg
We scrape together whatever pirogues we can some days, those were flimsy & cheap "borrowed" chopper gun spray and go pirogues. They got the job done tho. If you want a list of what I currently have: 24' Seaark, 19' Keywest, Chapman Cottonmouth, Carstens Pintail, Four Rivers Refuge Runner and Old Towne 119. You have to convince your new bride that there is no such thing as one "do it all" boat, over time she will learn to understand. LOL
Last edited by cajunwannabe; 12-04-2020 at 03:20 PM.
Listen to your elders. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Sir Winston Churchill
If this doesn't make sense, I'll sketch it for you.
Concave bottom with a short keel down the center that extends to the tangent of the hull bottom to gunwhale intersection.
Concave gives you stability and, if designed and executed correctly, will allow for nice tracking under paddle and easy sliding over obstacles without tipping.
Concave bottom would become a suction cup in the mud.
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
Bookmarks