Hello everyone! My wife and I are on our 4th Carver this year. Our first was a 1987 3207 with 350 Mercruisers , then a 1989 4207 with 3208 Cat’s, then a 1993 350 Voyager with Volvo diesels and now a 1992 Carver 36 aft cabin with Volvo 740b gas engines.
Love Carver yachts, they have the most room compared to any other make of boat on the water!

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I am a relatively new owner of a carver, had it for a year.

I decided to winterize the boat myself this year as I was not happy with the job done and the price by the marina mechanics.

If you could look over the steps I am planning to do and make corrections, I would greatly appreciate it.

I have a 1992 Carver 33 with 2 Crusaders 454 FWC.

Here is my plan:

Engines:

Close both seacocks, take the hose from a seacock and stick it into a 5 gal bucket with pink antifreeze. I am going to be using - ...

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New to the forum. I just purchased a 1974 Carver Cabin Cruiser for $2500. I believe it is a Monterey, number 2585. It’s equipped with a Ford 302 and Mercruiser MC-1 outdrive.The engine runs and upholstery is in “decent” condition. The boat was last in the water 10 years ago and has been barn stored ever since. I know these hulls are balsa cored, which concerns me slightly. However this boat seems to have solid stringers, floor, and hull. Only time will tell if that is the truth. I wi ...

2000 Carver Voyager 450 located in Massachusetts $210,000

2 stateroom and 2 head layout with inside helm and enclosed bridge. This boat is perfect for liveaboards or for long weekend cruising.

450 hp Cummins with 1100 hrs-544 gallon of diesel. New engine water pumps and belts replaced this fall. New engine through hulls 2021. Trim tabs replaced 2019. Fuel injectors replaced and lines cleaned in 2017. Cruises at 18 kts and tops out at 21 kts.

13.5 kw Kohler generator with new battery 2022. New gen ...

Brought the old gal up the river to winter storage. Ran great, or so I thought. Started fine, idled supreme and moved along at 3,000 perfectly. I thought I would give a burst of WOT and that is when bad stuff happened. Port engine went up to 3950-4000. About normal with the full tankage and weight. Starboard stumbled between 3200 and finally made it up to 3700 but was misfiring, so I backed it off. I replaced new plugs (NGK was in there) new Quick Silver wires and cap. I wires are close together ...

Can someone tell me what this is under wheel at fly bridge? Crystal ball with a switch?

All is done except the engines. Tomorrow we head up the Wareham river to storage.

Sigh. Last breakfast aboard this am. Planned good to be run down to bare minimum. 6 bottles of water , 5 K Cups, 2 eggs and minimal in fridge or cabinets. She is all winterize as for systems except engines which Zecco does. Heading up the Wareham tomorrow.

Well, it finally came. End of season. Seems like beginning of season was just 3 weeks ago. I am embarrassed to say, but I only put 5 hours on CBTL. Admiral got covid twice, I got it once. May and most of June was bad weather. Gas price at July 4th was 6.40 a gallon. I can pay it, I just refuse to. End of season it was 4.50. But CBTL ran like a champ. My test of run-dry impellers is ending. While they pump a lot of water, they really struggled getting the intial season prime going. Going back to ...

I have 2 350 Mercruiser MPI in My 2001 350 mariner.
One of the motors has a lifter tick I just cant eliminate.
I am going to put a new set of lifters in it (cause I don't know which one is ticking)
Are a set a Chevy lifters for the same year 350 the same?
Or did Mercruiser use something different?

For those who don’t have generators built in to their boats and have chosen to instead have an inverter installed to provide power to the 110v systems on the boat. What size inverter did you go with? Are you able to run things like the princess stove or water heater off them? What upgrades or add ons did you have to do to the batteries to power it? Or would one be better off buying a small portable generator to fire up somewhere on deck that won’t fill the cabin with exhaust gasses and just us ...