"hk" wrote in message
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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.


Harry is not a boat designer but he plays one on Rec.Boats.
I would think that If Tom thought Parker was a worthy boat, he would own a
couple of them. Tom is a boatman and a pretty good fisherman. Harry is a
blow hard. I think that just about covers it.