PARKER MARINE ENTERPRISES sells construction manuals, catalogues, study plans and full stock plans. We do custom design work (including charter boats) for construction in cold-molded wood, plywood, traditional wood, fiberglass, aluminum and steel. We do on-site or remote consultant work for new construction and major restorations. We do limited new construction and wooden boat restoration, as well as build components such as custom masts, hulls, Parker Flat-iron keels, foil-shaped centerboards and rudders, and stainless steel fabrication. To contact us, please write or email the following addresses:

PO Box 651429, Vero Beach, FL 32965
email: parkermarine@bellsouth.net
Payment by check or money order;
We now accept PayPal also
Prices include domestic shipping for book & catalogue orders;
Please add $7.50 for overseas orders.

Reuel Parker's newest book, THE VOYAGES OF FISHERS HORNPIPE, is now available for $29.95 plus $5 shipping. The new book, in the works for decades, is about building Capt. Parker's first cruising sailboat on a California beach in the mid-1970's, and sailing her 35,000 miles to twenty foreign countries. There is lots of information on building, planning, provisioning, finding crew (and love), navigation, learning the ropes of international travel, coping with storms at sea, and many anecdotes and revelations about life under sail. Two-hundred-sixty-two pages, with hundreds of charts and color photographs. We had to publish this ourselves, as McGraw-Hill would not touch a book with pictures of naked sailors! THE VOYAGES is a frank, pragmatic exposition of life on the water--if nothing else, it will give the reader a splendid arm-chair cruise, from the communes of California in the 70's, through the Panama Canal to rarely-visited destinations like Columbia, Haiti and Grenada while it was a socialist nation, to coping with a family in New York which could never endorse the cruising life. Books are available for shipping now.

Reuel Parker is presently developing a new line of MAXI-TRAILERABLE BOATS, for both sail and power. These vessels are 46' and under in length, 10' beam, shallow-draft, and 15,000 lbs or less. The concept is to provide cruising boats that can be stored on 40' 3-axle trailers, eliminating the need for slips and boatyards, which are rapidly turning into condos all over the American waterfront. The boats can be towed by a tow truck without permits or escort vehicles, or can be towed privately with only a wide load banner (no escorts). Parker Marine is building the first prototype in Florida: a double-ended sharpie schooner based on the Straits of Juan del Fuca (San Juan Islands) halibut-fishing sharpies of Washington State in the 1880's. The new sharpie is 45' on deck, 10' beam, 2'6" draft, 14,500 lbs displacement, with an unladen trailer weight of 12,000 lbs. She is a bald-headed gaff schooner, with self-tending sails. She has a new-design centerboard made of steel and lead-ballasted which is a foil-shaped fin when down. The boat sleeps four in two private cabins, has a hot-water-shower, solar-powered refrigeration, and carries an incredible 250 gallons of water and 80 gallons of fuel. Auxilliary power is an Isuzu 3LD2 diesel (40hp), which will propel her at speeds over 8 knots using less than .75 gallons per hour. Plans for four new MAXI-TRALERABLE sharpie sailboats are now available (See Prices Page--Sharpies). You can see IBIS, the first prototype under construction at Parker Marine Enterprises in our BROKERAGE PAGE, or by going to: http://schooneribis.blogspot.com.

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