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Hello CP folks! My buddy Robert and I splashed Empty Pockets Sunday morning at Moss Landing. We were off for a Rock Fish trip to Point Sur and checking and testing the newly installed systems and electronics on EP. Point Sur is about 43 miles south of Moss landing. Strait up and flat out ...

Hello CP folks, I have a marine head on Empty Pockets and it has ever been used. I know that I test flushed it twice when at the dock prior to the Sea Trail last year. By default, I realized I have two ‘flush loads’ of salt water in my holding tank for the last year. Whoops. That’s ‘prolly...

Of the Gleason household . . . We had to put our Aussie Shep down two weeks ago . . . the void was too big for us. We went to a breeder last Sunday and got us two more. Intoducing Scooter and Panama! Scooter is a female Blue Merle Aussie Shep and Panama is a female Red Tri Aussie Shep...

Hello CP folks! I went to Johnson Hicks in Santa Cruz on 07-03-08 to take delivery, setup and seatrail EP after she had a new Furuno unit installed. Wow . . . what a difference! I had a Furuno 1920C/NT NavNet2 head installed and networked with the onboard systems. Both uints talk to Capt...

Hello CP Folks! I pulled Empty Pockets from the indoor storage facility I use and brought her to the house to install two fender cradles (and generally mess with the boat: just ‘cause). The install went just fine . . . we are only talking a 7/16” socket and an open end wrench to mount ‘em and...

Hello Classis Parker folks, I got several shots of the Revere Costal Commander Ditch Raft install on Empty Pockets. Looking Aft Looking Forward I also changed out the 5" ScanStrut for a 10" to clear the body of the Ditch Raft Aft. My rocket launchers might still be in the way. Here is...

Hello CP folks, In thinking forward to the upcoming Tuna season: I decided to add some safety equipment on Empty Pockets. So far, the longest Tuna trip last season was 225 miles round trip. We were WAY the heck and gone outside and south of the Davidson. We left and returned to Moss Landing...

The scene is the deck of the MV Independence ( http://www.independencesportfishing.com/index.php ), Morgan Bank, 50 miles north of Cabo, 40 miles offshore, the date is 01-02-08 at around 1:00 in the afternoon. It has been a very slow morning, chasing schools of Black Dolphin and crashing birds...

Hello Classic Parker folks, This evening I opened up an envelope that had the latest schedule for the Long Range MV: The Royal Star. She is part of the San Diego Long Range Fleet and I have fished her several times. Included in the envelope were a few raffle tickets for the Friends Of Rollo...

Well that was fun! We just had a 5.6 Earthquake here in the San Francisco Bay Area. :shock: It was centered 8 miles east of Milpitas CA. I live in Fremont CA and Fremont shares the southern border with Milpitas. We got to moving pretty good! :shock: Wifo shot off the couch and made a...

Howdy folks, Today was ‘work on the boat/trailer’ day. I have actually been looking forward to doing this. My friend Robert arrived on my door step at Saturday morning at 8:30 prompt. On the last Tuna trip, we noticed two of my trailer lights were out on the drive home. They were working...

The smell of Skunk surrounds you! Hello Parker folks, I tried for ONE more Tuna run here off Central CA . . . well . . . it’s not like we didn’t try Sunday. :!: Two of my friends: Jack, Robert and I splashed Empty Pockets and cleared the jaws around 4:00 AM . . . we put Empty Pockets on the...

Hello Parker folks, I own a 2530 with the Galley option. My cabin configuration has a Ladder-Back pedestal seat for both the Helm and Navigator stations. There is a dinette table to port with a bench seat aft of the dinette table. There is a storage cabinet under the bench seat and a storage...

Hello Parker folks, I took Empty Pockets out for her first Tuna run a week after I towed the boat to it's new home . . . My Home! We left Moss Landing at about 5:00 AM with 3 nice scoops of Anchovies. We were headed to an underwater sea mount called 'The Guide'. We stopped short of The Guide...

Hello Parker Boat Folks, About a month and a week ago, I purchased my Parker. It is a brand spanking ‘new’ (2005) 2530 with twin Yamaha 4-stroke 150’s with the galley option. She had 33 hours on her when I Sea-Trailed her. I towed her home from San Diego to her new home in Fremont Ca. I...

Hello Parker folks, I am looking pretty long and hard at the Parker product line. The boat will be used mostly for Albacore Tuna off the central coast of California and near shore Salmon. Included in the mix will be a jaunt to a lake or two and the San Francisco Bay. But the boat will be...