Most laws allow sneak boats to be paddled to increase the speed need to reach open water rafts of ducks.

Sneak boat hunters sometimes uses small spreads of decoys in open water while they lay and wait some distance away watching with binoculars.

Most sneak boats are used for diver duck or ocean duck hunting where an open deep water waterfowl species frequent.

Open water sneak boat hunters are well known to be a hearty bunch and are known for operating on the riskier side of Waterfowl Hunting.

The main focus of the sneak boat is to put the hunter very close to the decoys or rafts of live waterfowl if not directly into them for additional closer shooting.

Other sneak boat hunter use large cabin cruiser as a base and perform sneaks using several sneak boats and a tender boat to allow quick retrieval.

Other versions of sneak boats are called sculling boats which utilize a paddle protruding out of the transom of the boat allowing the hunter to lay flat while sculling the boat into rafted waterfowl.

Among the "active measures" that the spies discussed - but apparently did not carry out - were making threatening phone calls, ostensibly from radical exiles, to the publisher of The Miami Herald at the time; sending a mail bomb to a person thought to be a C.I.A. agent; and sneaking boats with explosives into Florida.