Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Remember? You won the Parker when you placed First in the "I am a
dork and look like one contest. You had to submit an essay on why you
would look like a dork in a Parker with no transom.



Ahh, the transom routine again, considering:

A. The transom on my boat is 25" only where the engine is mounted, and
on either side of the motor cutout, the transom rapidly rises to about a
foot higher, while the transom on your boat is about 25" high across its
entire width.

B. Under certain circumstances, water may come aboard either of our
boats via the stern. In your case, a gallon or two of it will fill that
little motor well first, and then if there is a lot more, it will simply
cascade and flood over your back deck and into the cockpit, where it
will be momentarily trapped under the little scuppers let it out. If
that much water gets into my boat over the transom, it will flush itself
out almost immediately via four substantial scuppers and if necessary
over the bottom of the motor cutout.

C. Since my boat has so much more freeboard than yours in the bow and
from the bow to the stern, your boat is far more likely to take a
greenie over the bow than mine is. Again, though, if both boats took the
same wave over the bow, mine would drain faster because it can directly
reach the scuppers at the stern and the transom cutout if need be, while
in your boat the water would be trapped in your cockpit until the
scuppers could drain it.

D. Because your boat has substantially lower sides than mine, in
breaking seas, your boat is far more likely to take a greenie over the
side than mine is, especially if you find yourself traveling down a wave
trough.

And, as to design, while your boat is certainly more suited for shallow
water operation with its near flat bottom, it is less suitable than mine
to take on head seas without slowing waaaaay down. Both boats are
relatively small and will bounce; yours bounces more.

Now, which boat would I want on a typical bass lake? Yours. Except for
the engine, of course: too much horsepower, ungainly mount (30" lower
unit on a 25" transom that requires a bracket, right?)

I'll be glad to entertain any rebuttal of yours that does not ignore the
laws of physics. The usual idiotic comments from the Seven Dwarfs are
not relevant.

Let's see photos of your boat from the stern and from the cockpit
looking sternward, and with a yardstick up against the hullsides from
the deck and from the deck up against the transom.