248 Offshore

[macojoe]

For me it would have to be the Wellcraft or Mako.

Parker to much pounding and the Grady demands $10,000 Just for the name!!

There is a guy down the street from me has a 26 Mako, with twins, looks like a sweet machine!!

[willy]

The thing with Parkers is they make two different dead rises. Same size boat. I rode on one thru Manasquan Inlet when pretty tough and the boat was sweet and stable and did not pound in the chop at all. I was talking with the fellow who owned her about it because earlier in the summer I fished on what I thought was the same boat in Raritan Bay in a decent(normal) chop and it was a jolting experience. He said it was and again was not the same boat, Parker offered the same boats in two different dead rises and it makes a huge difference like I had seen. Just something to keep in mind, because of the three you showed there my preference would be for that Parker, just built better IMHO, and after years of similar use they hold up better from what I see. Just have to find one with the deeper deadrise.

[Skools Out]

Willys right *but they quit making the Parker deep v they only build the Mod V now due sells were not well with the deep v's even though they rode better. They use to build alot of deep v diesel jack shaft boats um i'd love to have one of those Parkers. out of those all posted i'd take a Parker first then the Grady then the Mako then last the Wellcraft. seeing them all built and having them all apart at some point the parker is built stronger than the others. the Parkers are very very stable boats plus they have a much wider beam at 9'6" those others at 8'6" the Grady at 9'0". I've fished a 2002 Parker 2502 CC w/ twin 225 4 stroke yamaha's on many many weekends, but remember my neighbor is a design engineer for Parker so i get alot of use of Parkers their new 35 coming out is one super nice boat.