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Neat design. Our last 3 boats have been cc's, I'll have to check these out.
Thanks, Merlin.

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Neat design. Our last 3 boats have been cc's, I'll have to check these out.
Thanks, Merlin.

It is a lovely boat. It was our first boat, with one-cylinder Yanmar diesel
and iron swing keel. Originally sold with a trailer. That center cockpit
design made for marvelous privacy if you were only a couple or had other
people or chuildren on board for a few days. We sold ours to a man in
Washington state who had a trailer special built and dragged it all the way
from Washinton to New York in February. Then he dragged her to the Gulf to
sail, for awhile then back to Washington where the boat is now. We have lost
touch with the buyer. There also used to be a web site devoted to the boat
but it has gone belly up, I think. The boat came as both a sloop and a
ketch.

As Dawsons, the boats were built in Las Vegas, Nevada. Parker bought the
molds and produced Parker-Dawsons in Florida and then in Nausset, Mass. They
got too costly and he sold out to Nausett Marine, which built a very few as
the Nausset 26. I saw a new one -- the last one, I guess -- for sail at
Nausset some years ago.

Our present boat looks like the Dawson's mother. It's an O'Day 37 CC sloop.

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I was mistaken. There is an active website at:

http://www.parkerdawson.com/

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I was mistaken. There is an active website at:

http://www.parkerdawson.com/

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Matt, trucks have 2 brakes per axle, just like any car has, yes
they're bigger, but no bazoos anywhere. That is why , when loaded
heavy it takes 10 times the stopping distance compared to a car. Same
thing when towing a boat.

BTW, 80,000# is normal legal limit, however you can haul up to
117,500# legally with the same amount of brakes. And most have 400 +
hp. these days.

Scott Vernon


Matt Colie wrote

You know those 70+foot long 75,000# 18 wheel trucks that carry
everything? They have brakes out the bazoo, they watch their balance by
the axle and most are less than 400HP - think about it.

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Matt, trucks have 2 brakes per axle, just like any car has, yes
they're bigger, but no bazoos anywhere. That is why , when loaded
heavy it takes 10 times the stopping distance compared to a car. Same
thing when towing a boat.

BTW, 80,000# is normal legal limit, however you can haul up to
117,500# legally with the same amount of brakes. And most have 400 +
hp. these days.

Scott Vernon


Matt Colie wrote

You know those 70+foot long 75,000# 18 wheel trucks that carry
everything? They have brakes out the bazoo, they watch their balance by
the axle and most are less than 400HP - think about it.