Greetings,

Today I closed on a very nice Carver 530 Voyager 2001. See pictures. We will be naming her "Copper" after the "Copper River" in Cordova Alaska, which is my home town.

The boat is currently in Cape Coral, FL, and I'll be running her across the state to Cocoa Village Marina over the next few days. We plan to do some ICW cruising on the East coast and spend at least two months in the Exumas next year starting in late Feb early Mar or 2022.

I'm looking forward to exchaning knowledge with everyone on this forum about these very nice boats.

I have been on the water my whole life. I grew up in the commercial fishery in Cordova, AK. I worked my way through college running my family's 50' Seiner in the Copper River Delta as a "tender" (which doesn't mean a small skiff attached to a larger boat in Alaska, but rather a larger boat that buys fish from smaller boats on behalf of a seafood company and then delivers that fish to the processing plant).

I've owned a few pleasure boats: A 34' CHB Trawler in Alaska for nearly 15 years, a 38' 3870 Bayliner, and a 39' Bayliner in Cape Coral, FL since 2006.

This is the largest recreational vessel I've owned or piloted. So far I'm very pleased with how she performs.

Nice to "meet" everyone.

Dave