Design

Honker

A 15 ft duck boat from Glen-L Marine sized to carry hunters, dog, decoys and gear, with a low silhouette, sloping side decks for camouflage and a slight vee for a steady gunning platform. Solidly built in sheet plywood with a three-quarter-inch doubled bottom over sawn frames; outboards to 25 hp.

Well within the reach of the average handy person with full-size patterns. Budget 200 to 350 hours. Measured medians from logged builds appear below.

What building a Honker actually takes

Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.

Build logs

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Median hours

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Median months

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Builds of this boat

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If you are building one, yours becomes the reference: the page the next person building this boat finds when they search for it. One photo and one line is a valid first entry.

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