My 2 cents on the whole parker 'ride'
I have a 23 SE and my friend has a 23 regulator and another friend a 25 grady cc. Both the regulator and the grady ride considerably better in the head sea. With that being said, my 23 SE has much more room to fish than the 25/26ft grady. While the grady and the regulator have awesome features for storing gear and icing fish, the parker allows for much more room. The grady and regulator hull designs took much more time and investment (lots more $$$), that's why they cost more and ride better. The parkers are rugged as* boats ready to catch fish.
The price says it all, the parker is by far the cheapest out of the 3. It rides "okay" at best and is an extremely wet boat. However, not once have I felt unsafe. I recently got caught in a nasty little squal offshore and the boat handled fine...we backed down to about 12 knots and were fighting off 6-8/10? foot waves (thought we were in some big trouble for few minutes there). The parker will bend, but it sure won't break.
2 weekends ago they were calling for 3-5's but we really wanted to get out for some bluefins and hopefully a mako. Regardless of the fact we would get beat up, my friends and I all decided to take the parker because it is just so much easier to fish. All we do is put a couple big coolers strapped down to the dance floor in the bow, load them up with ice, throw all the geat in the console, and we're ready to go.
As someone who uses his boat ONLY for fishing, I would not trade my boat for any other in the 24 ft CC and under range.