Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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wrote:
On Aug 10, 8:16 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:34:25 -0400, HK wrote:
All Parkers are foam-filled under the deck.
As they are linerless boats, there's no foam in the hullsides. But
there's enough foam injected to keep the boat afloat.
Under 20 feet, the Coast Guard requires that they must be rated for
passenger, gear and maximum horsepower capacity limits. They are also
required to have built-in flotation. Boats over 20 feet long are not
subject to standards for passenger, gear and maximum horsepower and
have no flotation requirements.
Buying a boat withougt flotation, is like buying an aeroplane with no
wings. Commercial vessel maybe, but a passenger vessel with no
flotation, if you sink, you deserve it.


Ask Wayne B. about the amount of flotation in his trawler.

Teak floats.

Eisboch




Indeed.

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:39:39 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

HK wrote:
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:39:40 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:36:54 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Side view:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...-08-080001.jpg

!! You didn't go for the aluminum trailer ??

Of course I did. But I won't be able to pick it up in Norfolk until
Saturday or Monday. The trailer you see is one of the dealer's yard
trailers. When new boats come in, they have to be stashed on
something. Tri-State uses cradles or trailers to prop up its new boats.
Are you getting yours from S&S? I drove to Norfolk to pick up mine....


Yup. Wanna meet me for lunch end of next week? I'm supposed to pick it
up either Saturday the 18th or Monday. Maybe we could pick up a charter
in Virginia Beach. I believe I'll be kinda footloose the end of next
week with my wife visiting her maternal grandma in western North Carolina.

That would be Saturday the 18th or the following Monday.

Where will you be? Will you be cruising west toward granny?

Monday is the first day of classes.... no way I'll get out of that....


Yikes. I guess I worded that...poorly.

No, I will not be cruising west towards granny. My wife's annual trips
to granny's house are a henfest, with the convergence of a number of
female relatives. Granny, by the way, is 100 years old this year. She's
a very healthy, active lady.

On Saturday, the 18th, hopefully, I will be cruising down to Norfolk to
pick up the trailer. But I won't know until Friday the 17th. That's when
the trailer is supposed to arrive there. If it isn't there for pickup on
the 18th, I'll be driving down on Monday the 20th.

It's not an illusion, this boat is extremely wet in anything but light chop.
I was in one with one other person and we continually had waves breaking
over the transom while drift fishing in 2' waves.

Look at Harry's own pic- you can see how large and deep the cutout is.


Looks like ole' Harry has bought a pig.

On Aug 10, 8:29 am, HK wrote:


Teak floats.

Eisboch

Indeed.- -


Not according to the CG

wrote in message
oups.com...
On Aug 10, 8:29 am, HK wrote:


Teak floats.

Eisboch

Indeed.- -


Not according to the CG



Relax. It was a joke.

Eisboch

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:22:24 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:34:25 -0400, HK wrote:

All Parkers are foam-filled under the deck.
As they are linerless boats, there's no foam in the hullsides. But
there's enough foam injected to keep the boat afloat.

Under 20 feet, the Coast Guard requires that they must be rated for
passenger, gear and maximum horsepower capacity limits. They are also
required to have built-in flotation. Boats over 20 feet long are not
subject to standards for passenger, gear and maximum horsepower and
have no flotation requirements.

So?

Just saying - not making any kind of point at all.

On Aug 10, 9:07 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
wrote in message

oups.com...

On Aug 10, 8:29 am, HK wrote:

Teak floats.

Eisboch

Indeed.- -

Not according to the CG

Relax. It was a joke.

Eisboch

I was kidding, thus the "" after the comment.

But for the record, when designing a boat under 20 feet, you can not
include the wood parts in your flotation calculations.

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:52:47 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:39:39 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

HK wrote:
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:39:40 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:36:54 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Side view:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...-08-080001.jpg

!! You didn't go for the aluminum trailer ??

Of course I did. But I won't be able to pick it up in Norfolk until
Saturday or Monday. The trailer you see is one of the dealer's yard
trailers. When new boats come in, they have to be stashed on
something. Tri-State uses cradles or trailers to prop up its new boats.
Are you getting yours from S&S? I drove to Norfolk to pick up mine....

Yup. Wanna meet me for lunch end of next week? I'm supposed to pick it
up either Saturday the 18th or Monday. Maybe we could pick up a charter
in Virginia Beach. I believe I'll be kinda footloose the end of next
week with my wife visiting her maternal grandma in western North Carolina.
That would be Saturday the 18th or the following Monday.
Where will you be? Will you be cruising west toward granny?

Monday is the first day of classes.... no way I'll get out of that....

Yikes. I guess I worded that...poorly.

No, I will not be cruising west towards granny. My wife's annual trips
to granny's house are a henfest, with the convergence of a number of
female relatives. Granny, by the way, is 100 years old this year. She's
a very healthy, active lady.

Great for the old girl! I hope to be spry and sassy past 100, too!

On Saturday, the 18th, hopefully, I will be cruising down to Norfolk to
pick up the trailer. But I won't know until Friday the 17th. That's when
the trailer is supposed to arrive there. If it isn't there for pickup on
the 18th, I'll be driving down on Monday the 20th.

Let me know how your plans evolve. S&S isn't very easy to find. I
remember them at the end of a short gravel drive, with an aircraft
carrier looming over the neighborhood.



Actually, they're on the other side now. They moved a few years ago.

Much easier to find. Near the airport and the botanic gardens.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...S-trailers.jpg

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
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.

SWS,

I have to disagree with you, this thread really has been a very
productive discussion about boats. No has called Harry's boat a piece
of **** (like Harry has done many times about other people's boats), no
has called called Harry an asshole or accused Harry about lying about
his Parker. In fact, even though Harry loves to call other people
names, it looks like most people try to ignore his insults and focused
on a very legitimate boating discussion. What I saw is someone who had
ridden in the Parker making an observation about the his ride in the
Parker, and then a general discussion about an open transom very a
transom with a engine well or splash boards.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:25:25 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Ask Wayne B. about the amount of flotation in his trawler.

Teak floats.

Just like a rock. Those 3,000 lb Detroit Diesels should help to keep
it afloat however. :-)

The GB also has about 60 inches of freeboard at the transom, self
draining deck with large scuppers, and a great deal of protection from
down flooding. Just what you'd want in a serious coastal and near
shore cruiser.