I’m interested in building a wood drift boat. I’m a disabled veteran who wants to help other veterans through fishing the New River and Greenbrier River of west Virginia. Fly and spincasting fishing smallmouth. I was just curious about supplies, cost, time line and building plans.
Robbie–Thank you for your service–your plan sounds like an honorable one. There’s a bill of materials on our site for the Driftboats so you can determine costs of materials in your area: https://www.boatdesigns.com/images/driftboats-bom.pdf Time to build is entirely up to you! We have many of the supplies needed to build on our site. Thank you for choosing Glen-L…
Saw your post on here with Lake Shasta area mentioned. I’m in Durham (near Chico), when you get this boat done I would be very interested in seeing it. I’m thinking about building a drift boat myself. I use a sit on top fishing kayak currently. If you would be interested in a paddle day I can come up and meet you at Whiskeytown or Shasta.
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I’m interested in building a wood drift boat. I’m a disabled veteran who wants to help other veterans through fishing the New River and Greenbrier River of west Virginia. Fly and spincasting fishing smallmouth. I was just curious about supplies, cost, time line and building plans.
Robbie–Thank you for your service–your plan sounds like an honorable one. There’s a bill of materials on our site for the Driftboats so you can determine costs of materials in your area: https://www.boatdesigns.com/images/driftboats-bom.pdf Time to build is entirely up to you! We have many of the supplies needed to build on our site. Thank you for choosing Glen-L…
Saw your post on here with Lake Shasta area mentioned. I’m in Durham (near Chico), when you get this boat done I would be very interested in seeing it. I’m thinking about building a drift boat myself. I use a sit on top fishing kayak currently. If you would be interested in a paddle day I can come up and meet you at Whiskeytown or Shasta.
Shawn