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Just finished my second season with my 28 center console parker. Absolutely love the boat. As with anything, there are things I like and things I don't. I don't think there are too many of them around, but was trying to see if anyone else on here has one to share ideas / modifications they...

Have to respool my bunker spoon rods for here in NJ. I just heard about this Inconel wire. Anyone have any experience with it vs Monel or stainless? They say it is much softer than even monel, but yet still priced about the same as stainless. Sounds too good to be true. hate spending all...

Has anyone with the newer style center consoles had a problem with the fluch mounted switches leaking badly when you clean the boat? I even cover mine with a towel and try to just mist that area, but the amount of water that leaks into my console and all over the wires is kind of disappointing...

I have the new Simrad NSS with the Insight cartography. I think the cartography is pretty good. The bathymetric info could be a little better, but is acceptable for now. Was wondering if anyone thought the Navionic chip was much better. Meaning.... is the cost of the navionics chip going to...

Have the NSS12 - love it thus far, but have been trying to get the radar overlay feature to work. Finally called simrad for help. Apparently I need an RC42 rate compass (about $650) for the radar to be able to overlay on the chart plotter. No where did I see this before, nor does the manual...

I have the full transom fishbox on my 28. I would really like to divide it into two compartments from time to time. For offshore fishing, I would keep it wide open and fill with ice / slurry. But when I am bass fishing, etc, that box is just so big that I really need alot of ice in there to...

Was hoping someone could help me out. New parker with twin engines. Two batteries and two battery switches. I beleive that each motor is separately wired to only one battery. Meaning, if one battery completely died, I could not start that motor. Can that really be correct? I cannot...

Greetings all The new parker center consoles have pretty beefy plates welded in under the canvas, on each side of the helm. They look to me like they are designed for outriggers. Do you all think that those plates would be strong enough for a bolt thru outrigger, or do you really think the...

Wondering if anyone has taken delivery of a 2801 lately, and what your thoughts were on the boat (ride, drift, fuel burn, speed, etc etc). Or, anyone who has an older one, please feel free to chime in. Can anyone give thoughts / compare that boat versus a 26 Regulator? Thanks

Kind of stole the idea from someone on the board here who had one made out of starboard for their boat. I used mahogany instead, as it was much cheaper to buy 4 feet of that ($16) than a piece of the tan starboard. Mad a pattern first out of plywood. Checked for fit, then cut the final...

Well, it took 4 years on our current boat, but we finally cracked 40. To be exact, it was 41.4 pounds on a certified scale. What makes it better is that my son had the honors to be the first one on the rod this day, and as his luck would have it, this was the first fish. Bunker spoon in 65'...

And they worked great.... 46 inches and 40 inches. Never used the Tony Maja spoons before, but have always been a bunker spoon fan. Well, his produced good for me. I was using the #2 in green. 55 feet of water and had them bouncing right on the bottom.

Has anyone used the Cabela's AGM Batteries. They are having a pretty good sale on them right now. I see that they use a bolt instead of the wingnut. Also, some of the reviews on the cabelas site complain about small battery posts. Has anyone had any trouble with these - in particular, can...

Got out last week before Bill hit town. Real nice forecast so brought the wife and kids. :roll: Started out trolling a bunch of bonito, but mid morning we came across a weed/debris line in the water. :P Pulled the clark spoons out and put on some feathers, and we got rewarded with 4 nice...

It seems like almost every time I go down to my boat and turn on the batteries, I get no juice to anything other than the motor. I end up having to trip the breaker thats mounted in the back below the battery switch. Once I do that, everything is fine and comes on. I am at a complete loss as...

Has anyone installed a freshwater washdown on their parker. I have the 23SE and was thinking about putting one in. I am contemplating a small tank, down under the aft hatch cover. Just something to wash things off with, not necessarily clean the boat with. Any suggesstions would be much...

Another member posted a question in the all parker boats page about 23SE performance. I have the 23SE with F-200 and factory black stainless prop. I have a T-top and it is bottom painted. Best RPMs I have ever gotten is 5200 if I trip it way up. Typically I only get 5000. At 5200 I am...

I was reading thru my yamaha gauge manual again last night, and figuring out how to reset the maintenance clock, for after my last oil change, when I came across the trolling feature setup in my gauges. This feature allows you to adjust the RPMs electronically in 50 RPM increments. This comes...

I was wondering if anyone of my fellow center console owners have a T-Top T-Bag mounted on their T-Top. I have been wanting to get one for a while to store my life jackets in. I would really like this from a safety standpoint of having the jackets right there in an emergency, and also would...

Last weekend, while trolling 25 miles offshore, I happened to look over the side of my boat and see the bilge discharging. This is not common on my boat, so I opened the back hatch and found a large volume of water in the bilge. After a few second panic attack, I diagnosed the problem as a...