Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:37:51 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:03:04 -0500, John H.
wrote:

Harry, in the pictures on the Parker site,
http://www.parkerboats.net/pages/boa...l.jsp?boatid=2
it appears that the 21'er is the same as the 23'er without the engine
mount. Why would you get a boat that has no protection from the water
coming thru the transom? Hell, even the 18'er appears to have the engine
mounted in such a way as to keep the water out.
Come on guys - it's a nice boat.

It's not what some of us would buy for any number of reasons, but
that's Harry's choice, not ours.

Picking on that one detail seems kind of petty.

Shudder......

It reminded me of the old Skipper threads about "the dangerous Scout
low transom."

I always suggested to him that if he was afraid of getting wet he
probably should give up boating.......



I never could follow that "line of thought" of his...

I think it is an issue with "inland" boaters who have no ocean
experience. I suppose if I boated on a little lake, I'd be scared, too.

I don't know what they use now, but when I was living near St.
Augustine, the sheriff's surf rescue patrol used Carolina Skiff hulls as
the basis of their surf retrieval boats. Not only do Carolina Skiffs
have low transoms, they have low hullsides. You'd see these guys push
out Matanzas Inlet and St. Augustine Inlet and pull swimmers out of six
to eight foot breakers.

Parker offers the cut down transom style on several of its 21, 23 and 25
footers. They have high appeal to *real* fishermen because they allow
direct access to the body of water and fish right at the transom.

I tell you, just about every time I see a "boating-related" post from
certain of the guys here, I chuckle.