Punt!

[guzzicat]

Just seen a gunning punt on Fleabay,with a 4 hp outboard ( I know not legal for fowling ) for £70.00, a steal the outboard will sell for that! its in Maldon. ******!

[Penelope]

Do you have a link?

[guzzicat]

Hi is listed as "Duck shooting boat"

[BrowningB525]

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162565100891

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Quick, buy it!

[Mice!]

Own up if you buy it 😊

[Old farrier]

Well it's a sneak boat and the reserve is £75

 

Assume it's watertight and the old seagull works on unleaded 2stroke mix and go for it ask if a life jacket size small is included 😂😂

All the best

Of

[Lloyd90]

They're not legal for waterfowling?

[Pushandpull]

It is illegal to use a mechanically-propelled vessel (or a vehicle) in immediate pursuit of any wild bird for the purposes of taking driving or killing it. There is not much case law on what exactly this means, but any motor is better off ashore or off the transom of any boat if you are shooting.

"There is certainly no place for an outboard engine in puntgunning today and there has not been one by tradition either." - the late Nick Frearson, writing in the last edition of The New Wildfowler.

[Old farrier]

However not illegal to use it to take you to a island to shoot from or to get home

Or in a emergency

However I believe it should be unshipped and stored safely if in pursuit of fowl

 

Personally don't think it's in the spirit of punting to have one or use it

Bit like deerstalkin on a quad

 

All the best

Of

[guzzicat]

Well it's a sneak boat and the reserve is £75

 

Assume it's watertight and the old seagull works on unleaded 2stroke mix and go for it ask if a life jacket size small is included

All the best

Of

Not so B.I.N is £70! just too far South.

[BRYAN3]

Own up if you buy it

Alright ya got me bang to rights.

[Mice!]

Ha ha well done that man read a few books talking about punting, sounds real old school.

 

Post some pics after your first sortie 👏

[hawkfanz]

ok its sold so did u buy it bryan?

[BRYAN3]

ok its sold so did u buy it bryan?

I did buy it. For years I tried to get drawings for building my own.

Now have one ready made to ascertain whether I really do even use it. I have lived on a river bank for thirty something years and have never even paddled in or on it. This is a 14ft jobbie with a new cover and oars and the little motor runs,although the racket would get on my t1ts.

I am not bothered about actually fowling,it's not my "thing"

Anyway it needs a teaspoon full of filler,a drain plug washer and a coat of paint in my chosen colour.

At present it is yellow underneath and black upper.

I also need to addapt a trailer to carry it.

[Old farrier]

I did buy it. For years I tried to get drawings for building my own.

Now have one ready made to ascertain whether I really do even use it. I have lived on a river bank for thirty something years and have never even paddled in or on it. This is a 14ft jobbie with a new cover and oars and the little motor runs,although the racket would get on my t1ts.

I am not bothered about actually fowling,it's not my "thing"

Anyway it needs a teaspoon full of filler,a drain plug washer and a coat of paint in my chosen colour.

At present it is yellow underneath and black upper.

I also need to addapt a trailer to carry it.

Hard to get plans for punts

There's a few books with dimensions in them and I'm sure if you asked the right person they would have been very helpful

Enjoy your time in the punt

All the best

Of

 

Here's one I made earlier 😂😂

 

And the one I made before that 😊

Edited July 1, 2017 by Old farrier

[Big Mat]

Looks more of a sneak boat for inland washes work rather than a proper gunning punt. I was almost tempted but it was far to far for me at the moment

[Mice!]

I'm also living along a small river, we've all been in it at some point in wellies only so far, there will be some sort of boat at some point, don't tell the wife☺

[guzzicat]

Glad someone hit the lucky button,too far south for me!