Budget Boat Blind

Can you add a custom blind to your boat for under $50?

Yes! You can add a cheap custom scissor blind to your boat and summer is the time! Read on and I will walk you through how I added a blind to my 12' duck boat for only $35.00.


I started off by going to Home Depot and getting 4 sections of ½" by 10' conduit. I did not have a conduit bender so a little bit of asking I got the guys there to bend 2 pieces of conduit at 6 inches from each end to 90 degrees. This would form the top of the blind.
I then grabbed the rest of the items needed to finish my project.

Items needed:

• 4- 10', 1/2" aluminum conduit @ $2.99 each (2 bent 90 degrees 6 inches from each end)
• 1 pack of 4 straight conduit connectors 1/2" @ $1.99/ pack
• 4- 2 ½" bolts with nuts @ $1.50
• 4- ¾" bolts with nuts @ $0.89
• 2- coder pins 2" long @ $1.00/each
• 1- 2' section of 90 degree aluminum with holes punched through @ $3.50
• Blind cover (you can use what you' dlike but I used camo burlap and twin that I already had)

Tools needed:

• Drill
• Jig saw


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Ducks Unlimited Voices Strong Opposition to Massive Federal Conservation Spending Cuts

Chris Manka Conservation Awareness

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Feb. 14, 2011 – Ducks Unlimited, along with other conservation organizations, is opposing proposed spending cuts in conservation programs released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. The cuts would affect wetlands conservation to the tune of nearly $2 billion, including the loss of $47 million in funding for North American Wetlands Conservation Act grants. The proposed cuts would eliminate all NAWCA funding and also eliminate the match for a total loss of $200 million in habitat work.

"The cuts being proposed could imperil waterfowl populations and the future of the waterfowl hunting tradition in America," said DU CEO Dale Hall. "What's being proposed by the House Appropriations Committee will cripple conservation efforts as we know them," Hall said. "Elimination of NAWCA, an 81% reduction of acquisition for refuges and seriously reducing many other programs so vital to our mission are things DU strongly opposes."

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