On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:27:24 -0400, BAR wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:

Uh...there's more freeboard on my parker than on the correspondingly
sized Grady CC, even the 22-foot Grady. What the Gradys have is a
transition, or dip, in the gunnels as they move towards the aft end of
the boat, and therefore a more interesting shearline. I believe it is
called a Palm Beach shearline, or something similar.

Up forward, I have more freeboard, and in the stern I also have more
freeboard. I'll have to measure it with a tape, but my Parker dealer
also sells Gradys, and I looked at a couple of them before making my
choice.

Harry Krause,
I meant to ask you, if the Parker is as close to perfect as a boat can
be, why would anyone want to bring along aluminum folding chairs?

The aluminum chairs work together with the aluminum hats to keep the
governments GPS signals from take control of you. Everybody knows that
GPS satellites have dual purposes.

You know, I've often wondered about those "noises" I hear every once
in a while - you know - high speed data streams?

Do you really think the aluminum hat would help? How about I if I
used a stainless steel mixing bowl?

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:27:24 -0400, BAR wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:

Uh...there's more freeboard on my parker than on the correspondingly
sized Grady CC, even the 22-foot Grady. What the Gradys have is a
transition, or dip, in the gunnels as they move towards the aft end of
the boat, and therefore a more interesting shearline. I believe it is
called a Palm Beach shearline, or something similar.

Up forward, I have more freeboard, and in the stern I also have more
freeboard. I'll have to measure it with a tape, but my Parker dealer
also sells Gradys, and I looked at a couple of them before making my
choice.
Harry Krause,
I meant to ask you, if the Parker is as close to perfect as a boat can
be, why would anyone want to bring along aluminum folding chairs?
The aluminum chairs work together with the aluminum hats to keep the
governments GPS signals from take control of you. Everybody knows that
GPS satellites have dual purposes.

You know, I've often wondered about those "noises" I hear every once
in a while - you know - high speed data streams?

Do you really think the aluminum hat would help? How about I if I
used a stainless steel mixing bowl?


At some point you have to ask yourself, Tom, why you are cavorting with
two of the reigning assholes of rec.boats, Reggie Retardo and BARred
from Dating Women.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:43:17 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

I was wondering about your transom. Since you don't have a big hole in
your transom, if a big way comes over the front of your boat, won't you
sink like a rock?


I carry a chain saw for emergencies like that. It can immediately cut
a large hole anywhere to let the water out. It's something they teach
in damage control school.


PS - If that woman on the front of your boat is your wife, you will
really have Harry jealous.

She is, and he is. We were married several years ago when when she
was 14.

LOL

HK wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:44:28 -0400, HK wrote:

Hey, if you like barges, yours is one of the ones to get. Me, I'd
rather stay in a good hotel.

Barge:

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/pages/36-Barge.htm

Grand Banks Trawler:

http://www.marlowmarine.com/images/cinsubar%20.jpg


I like the looks of the smaller, older GB trawlers, but not the larger
ones. The larger ones look like slabsided barges to me. Sorry.

If I were buying a trawlerRV, I'd want something a bit more "shippy"
looking, at least to my taste, than a big GB.


So you don't have a lobster boat? Really?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:42:04 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:27:24 -0400, BAR wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:

Uh...there's more freeboard on my parker than on the correspondingly
sized Grady CC, even the 22-foot Grady. What the Gradys have is a
transition, or dip, in the gunnels as they move towards the aft end of
the boat, and therefore a more interesting shearline. I believe it is
called a Palm Beach shearline, or something similar.

Up forward, I have more freeboard, and in the stern I also have more
freeboard. I'll have to measure it with a tape, but my Parker dealer
also sells Gradys, and I looked at a couple of them before making my
choice.
Harry Krause,
I meant to ask you, if the Parker is as close to perfect as a boat can
be, why would anyone want to bring along aluminum folding chairs?
The aluminum chairs work together with the aluminum hats to keep the
governments GPS signals from take control of you. Everybody knows that
GPS satellites have dual purposes.

You know, I've often wondered about those "noises" I hear every once
in a while - you know - high speed data streams?

Do you really think the aluminum hat would help? How about I if I
used a stainless steel mixing bowl?

At some point you have to ask yourself, Tom, why you are cavorting with
two of the reigning assholes of rec.boats, Reggie Retardo and BARred
from Dating Women.

First of all, I like them - they are interesting. Secondly, BAR is a
former Marine and as such, a brother-in-arms. Third, and probably
something you wouldn't understand, I generally enjoy conversing with
everybody here.

I honestly don't care how they get along with anybody else. I like to
think of myself as the universal conversationalist. :)

On Sep 11, 5:09 pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 11, 2:53 pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 11, 12:22 pm, HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
I don't much like the big horsey side decals, either. On any boat.
I had an 18' Robolo CC for a couple of years. The first modification I did
was to tediously remove the huge "Robolo" decals from the sides.
Unfortunately, a faint ghost image of the name decal remained, despite my
many attempts to buff it out.
Eisboch
A shark's jaw decal on the bow?
http://tinyurl.com/3ypyxx-Hidequoted text -
- Show quoted text -
See, that's a nice shot. I never suggested changing any part of the
wet side of the hull, just a little curve to the shear, and tail,
that's all..Wouldn't take much, certainly could be done without
changing the fit and function at all. Anyway, don't get me wrong, one
of the things I noticed about those Parkers was how nice they seemed
to be moving in the water and how perfect of a single handed, or two
handed fishing boat it is. The four was real quiet too. They came in
not 100 yards from each other and headed for the same marina, do not
know if they were fishing together or not.
The boat is big enough in the front. If you drop the shearline, you
decrease the height of the gunnels off the deck. When you do that, you
make it more possible for ugly things to happen in terms of water coming
aboard or people falling off. This is much less of a problem, of course,
on larger boats.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I was thinking of a little more freeboard in the shear, not less.
Kind of like the Gradys and such but not so obvious..

Uh...there's more freeboard on my parker than on the correspondingly
sized Grady CC, even the 22-foot Grady. What the Gradys have is a
transition, or dip, in the gunnels as they move towards the aft end of
the boat, and therefore a more interesting shearline. I believe it is
called a Palm Beach shearline, or something similar.

Up forward, I have more freeboard, and in the stern I also have more
freeboard. I'll have to measure it with a tape, but my Parker dealer
also sells Gradys, and I looked at a couple of them before making my
choice.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Harry, you big thumbed, liberal, union spewing, Kansas hating, E-Tec
envy, and probably fairly well dressed, thug! you are not looking at
this the right way, I am talking in an artsy kindy or way, not just
frekin' numbers I thought libs were supposed to be artsy, I give up,
ugh, Have fun Harry, it's a great boat, even if.. oh forget it

wrote:
On Sep 11, 5:09 pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 11, 2:53 pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 11, 12:22 pm, HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
I don't much like the big horsey side decals, either. On any boat.
I had an 18' Robolo CC for a couple of years. The first modification I did
was to tediously remove the huge "Robolo" decals from the sides.
Unfortunately, a faint ghost image of the name decal remained, despite my
many attempts to buff it out.
Eisboch
A shark's jaw decal on the bow?
http://tinyurl.com/3ypyxx-Hidequoted text -
- Show quoted text -
See, that's a nice shot. I never suggested changing any part of the
wet side of the hull, just a little curve to the shear, and tail,
that's all..Wouldn't take much, certainly could be done without
changing the fit and function at all. Anyway, don't get me wrong, one
of the things I noticed about those Parkers was how nice they seemed
to be moving in the water and how perfect of a single handed, or two
handed fishing boat it is. The four was real quiet too. They came in
not 100 yards from each other and headed for the same marina, do not
know if they were fishing together or not.
The boat is big enough in the front. If you drop the shearline, you
decrease the height of the gunnels off the deck. When you do that, you
make it more possible for ugly things to happen in terms of water coming
aboard or people falling off. This is much less of a problem, of course,
on larger boats.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
I was thinking of a little more freeboard in the shear, not less.
Kind of like the Gradys and such but not so obvious..
Uh...there's more freeboard on my parker than on the correspondingly
sized Grady CC, even the 22-foot Grady. What the Gradys have is a
transition, or dip, in the gunnels as they move towards the aft end of
the boat, and therefore a more interesting shearline. I believe it is
called a Palm Beach shearline, or something similar.

Up forward, I have more freeboard, and in the stern I also have more
freeboard. I'll have to measure it with a tape, but my Parker dealer
also sells Gradys, and I looked at a couple of them before making my
choice.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Harry, you big thumbed, liberal, union spewing, Kansas hating, E-Tec
envy, and probably fairly well dressed, thug! you are not looking at
this the right way, I am talking in an artsy kindy or way, not just
frekin' numbers I thought libs were supposed to be artsy, I give up,
ugh, Have fun Harry, it's a great boat, even if.. oh forget it



I'm not into "artsy" fishing boats. I don't like metalflake bass boats,
either.

Kansas hating?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:02:27 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

I honestly don't care how they get along with anybody else. I like to
think of myself as the universal conversationalist. :)

Now wait just a minute here, we already have a universal
confrontationalist.

Did you mean contortionist?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:05:22 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:02:27 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

I honestly don't care how they get along with anybody else. I like to
think of myself as the universal conversationalist. :)

Now wait just a minute here, we already have a universal
confrontationalist.

Did you mean contortionist?

What ever works. :)

Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:02:27 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

I honestly don't care how they get along with anybody else. I like to
think of myself as the universal conversationalist. :)

Now wait just a minute here, we already have a universal
confrontationalist.

Did you mean contortionist?

I think that means he can do it with either hand.