On Feb 13, 2:53*pm, HK wrote:
wrote:

snerk Is there a specific prop for a boat that stays on the hard all
season?

I dunno. You should ask the guy who built that gerry-built and sloppily
painted rowboat you never use.

snerk I don't have a Parker.. I saw one at the show however, the
sides looked like the washboard my mom did laundry with when I was a
kid and there was a hole in the ass end you could drive a Volkswagen
through.. Oh yeah, they put a little plastic board across the back at
the same height as the transom..

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:56:00 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

I don't have a Parker.. I saw one at the show however, the
sides looked like the washboard my mom did laundry with when I was a
kid and there was a hole in the ass end you could drive a Volkswagen
through.. Oh yeah, they put a little plastic board across the back at
the same height as the transom..

I checked out their website. Many of their boats have the engines on
brackets, and the transom is as high as the sides. I like the ones
with a pilothouse, which run 3 to 7 feet long. You can get a flush
toilet on the 26 footer. I think one or more of their boats would make
an OK coastal cruiser. Are the ripples that bad?

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:56:00 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

I don't have a Parker.. I saw one at the show however, the
sides looked like the washboard my mom did laundry with when I was a
kid and there was a hole in the ass end you could drive a Volkswagen
through.. Oh yeah, they put a little plastic board across the back at
the same height as the transom..

I checked out their website. Many of their boats have the engines on
brackets, and the transom is as high as the sides. I like the ones
with a pilothouse, which run 3 to 7 feet long. You can get a flush
toilet on the 26 footer. I think one or more of their boats would make
an OK coastal cruiser. Are the ripples that bad?

Casady


I've owned two new parkers. No ripples. JustHate is just being his usual
asshole-ish self.

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.

The parkers are a step down from gradys in finish, but I think they are
stronger.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:35:37 -0500, HK wrote:

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.

In Iowa you would have to put in on a trailer, with a wide load
permit, and haul it to a truck stop to get it pumped out. There could
be a real temptation there...

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:35:37 -0500, HK wrote:

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.

In Iowa you would have to put in on a trailer, with a wide load
permit, and haul it to a truck stop to get it pumped out. There could
be a real temptation there...

Casady


Yet another reason not to live in Iowa... :)

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:57:45 -0500, HK wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:35:37 -0500, HK wrote:

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.

In Iowa you would have to put in on a trailer, with a wide load
permit, and haul it to a truck stop to get it pumped out. There could
be a real temptation there...

Casady


Yet another reason not to live in Iowa... :)

Iowa is a nice place, and it does have the
Mississippi, so you can start a cruise to anywhere from here. It just
lacks large boats and places to use them. The water skiing as as good
as anywhere. All the docks have to be taken out each fall, They used
to be post and planks and it was tedious.

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:57:45 -0500, HK wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:35:37 -0500, HK wrote:

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.
In Iowa you would have to put in on a trailer, with a wide load
permit, and haul it to a truck stop to get it pumped out. There could
be a real temptation there...

Casady

Yet another reason not to live in Iowa... :)

Iowa is a nice place, and it does have the
Mississippi, so you can start a cruise to anywhere from here. It just
lacks large boats and places to use them. The water skiing as as good
as anywhere. All the docks have to be taken out each fall, They used
to be post and planks and it was tedious.

Casady


Psst. I've been to Iowa. Probably a dozen times. You are right, it is a
nice place. But I wouldn't want to live there. Too far from salt water.
I'd probably like boating on the Mississippi River, though.

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:08:18 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:35:37 -0500, HK wrote:

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.

In Iowa you would have to put in on a trailer, with a wide load
permit, and haul it to a truck stop to get it pumped out. There could
be a real temptation there...

Casady

Having ridden with friends on both Gradys and Parkers, there is no way
I'd ever say that Parkers were 'stronger' than Gradys. They are sold
in the same showroom in Deale, MD, and there is no comparison between
the two with regard to fit and finish.

'Stronger'...
--
Calling an Illegal Alien an "Undocumented Worker" is like calling a
Crack Dealer an "Unlicensed Pharmacist"

John H

John H wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:08:18 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:35:37 -0500, HK wrote:

My first parker was a 25-footer with a flush toilet in the forward part
of the pilothouse.
In Iowa you would have to put in on a trailer, with a wide load
permit, and haul it to a truck stop to get it pumped out. There could
be a real temptation there...

Casady

Having ridden with friends on both Gradys and Parkers, there is no way
I'd ever say that Parkers were 'stronger' than Gradys. They are sold
in the same showroom in Deale, MD, and there is no comparison between
the two with regard to fit and finish.

'Stronger'...
--
Calling an Illegal Alien an "Undocumented Worker" is like calling a
Crack Dealer an "Unlicensed Pharmacist"

John H

When he downsized to the 20 footer, he bought his wife a toilet in a
suitcase to use on the boat. What a sport; eh.I'll bet it's never been used.