Applying proper grammar, I believe there's only one correct way to read the first one. Assuming it's a sentence, it needs a verb. The only possible verb there is "man." So, "The old" has to be the subject, and they "man the boat."
Don't believe the second one can be a proper sentence, regardless of how you try to read it. Has to have at least another word to make it grammatically correct. Could say "The horse [that] ran past the barn fell." Or, it could say "The horse ran past[, and] the barn fell." Or, "The horse ran past the barn [that] fell." Or, "The horse ran past the barn[, which] fell." In any event, once you make it grammatically correct, the ambiguity disappears.
In the third one, you cannot read "The man who hunts ducks" as the subject. If you try to read it that way, it is grammatically incorrect because you cannot say that the subject of a sentence "out occasionally," which would make no sense. You could say that the subject of a sentence "[is] out occasionally," but that removes any potential ambiguity. As written, the only correct interpretation is "The man who hunts" is the subject, and he "ducks out occasionally."
The fourth one is the only one that contains an ambiguity when read according to proper grammar.
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