last week I sprayed some impossible to pronounce chemical (but bio degradable so the world is not degrading faster) on our hull and the yellowish 'mustache' disappeared. Leaving a nice white hull. Quite surprised and happy of course, the renovation will take lots of work on polishing and such but I now see an end to this and we will have a nice white shiny boat in the end.

Which brings me to my question: are the 'Carver' logo's digitally available? I mean the old ones, (my boat is from 1992). They seem quite simple as far as the font goes but before I start a noob-to-over-the-top course in creating a digital version i thought I'd better ask here first.



Searching accross the web I have collected a number of pictures of various lay-outs, design solutions and details.

Questions that arose:

- I found a picture with a latch on the sliding door (280 sedan/26 command bridge) with a lock. I don't have a lock at all, would like one. Would this be a simple swap but can I acquire one? Are there salvage boats where parts can be found? Or new perhaps even?

- the shower thingy in the back is worn and damaged, is this a certain brand that still exists? The common chinese options are totally differently dimensioned so are a difficult solution.

- The power and fwd/reverse handles seem upside down on my bridge, pictures of setups welcome. Also the 'quarter moon' dashboard parts on either side of the center 'pod' are damaged in mine, what was there originally? tips and pics welcome.

- my dining table was probably once pushed over with force, leaving the plastic parts in the table and in the floor in pieces. I do have the aluminium pipes but the table is not steady any more. Is this a common problem, are there known solutions?

Before one advises to contact Carver and get all the information I can ever think of to ask; they don't react to my short email through their website and calling them is not that easy from the other side of the world and thus timezone as owner of an old carver through which they're not likely to make money any more.


I very much appreciate any information, it's an interesting journey to undertake and when I get a bit more momentum (it's winter over here now) I can start a blog if people are interested.