Jack I easily found D 506 stamped starboard on the bow handle. This Ducker still has the old MN registration number I painted on when it was first required. I remember dad complaining something about big seagoing yachts being exempt from the requirement.

I found no numbers on the other Ducker except for one unreadable area closely corresponding to the area where the serial number should have been stamped if both craft had built with the same marking system. Either purposeful obliteration or an unlikely occurrence where the craft suffered heavy waves for several hours wedged hull up by the bow on some broken granite shoreline.

Duckers are tough. I remember the starboard oar snapping like a twig just after a clump of hard green bulrush pressed its mate hard to the port gunnel. That rowing error cost us a few shivers, as the next foamy 3-footer slammed the Ducker with me in chest waders and heavy alpaca parka, my dog, and 44 "carrylite" cedar decoys into a rocky shoreline.