Carver Documentation file list

[Sbetten]

Hey Frank, are you able to download this on an IPad? Trying to see what you have for a 99' Carver 530 Voyager Pilothouse. sbetten44@gmail.com

[Gerard]

Hi guys, Im new here and finally, just bought an old Carver 630 Santego FLY built in 1991 and now its time for maintenaince tasks

So, anyone gently could be share with me/us the Owner's Manual?

Thank yoy so much for your support!!

[BigTex68]

What happened? The site doesn't exist anymore.

[Phrancus]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7396&p=63139#p63139

[wpjdc0]

QR_BBPOST EDIT!!!!2023:

Please do look a bit further into the forum and find the topic where i explain that I cannot serve every singleposter (who vanishes into oblivion after being helped) with documents.

I set up a website at my own cost to provide Carver owners and wannabe owners to download whatever salvaged file they consider useful. http://www.carveryachts.store (it is technically not so great, I know, but it works)

Everyone (!) considering, pondering, worrying, choosing, to buy a Carver is most welcome to use the information available to weigh all info to make a personal decision. Who of us was not in that situation (before choosing a Carver ) and would have been very happy with any neutral information at hand.

For who came across a Carver and has questions; USE THE FORUM! there is a huge amount of real information in the heads of users who are not going to call you at a convient moment to answer questions they saw in their Glass Bowl of magic. But you CAN request kindly for information to help you. Start a topic, write your thoughts, expectations and worries. You will most likely be helped. In the end, however,YOU are responsible for your own problems. Whatever advice you got in preparation.

Good day,
New 2002 - Carver 404 Cockpit Motor Yacht owner. It's in a bit of rough shape and has no documentation with it. I tried the website you provided but it did not work. Is it still up? if not, how can I purchase any 404 build information, technical documentation, owner's manuals or service manuals you might have.
thank you for your time!
JohnC

There is a donation method provided, i am very glad to report that two downloaders donated. That is about 0,1 % of my cost (my time NOT included). No, I am not looking for you to pay for my breakfast. I do, however, am not an owner of a Carver any more. So yes, whatever I do here is bonus, gratis, not-for-profit. And it will remain that way. Any profits go to the forum.

So. Feel free to pickup what you need, want or deem useful. At the same time, do not underestimate the power of the carveryachtowners.com forum to help you out when in dire straits.

Decide for yourself to support who donated before you and after you. Remember: all donations above my direct cost (only approximately 50 euros) are transferred to the Carveryachtsowners.com forum. No small print, no excuses. I like to see things as simple as possible.

Cheers,

Frank.


ps. sounds pretty grim, doesn't it.... no worry, enjoy life! just consider fellow enjoyers; the waters may well be the last frontier before know-all-tech takes over.

[Funksavage]

Sadly, the link goes to nowhere. I just bought my boat and got excited about this post… alas it was disappointingly outdated and unavailable.

[KyleR]

Use this.

https://rentier.nl/carveryachts/

Kyle

[Todd_G71]

Do you still have your website store up and running? I need to get the dimensions for the 1999 Carver 356 aft cabin. Specifically, I need to know the distances from the flybridge to the bow and stern and then side-to-side to the nearest meter.

Thanks.

[KyleR]

Do you still have your website store up and running?

Use the link in the post directly above the one you posted.

[Phrancus]

Short update May 2025:

- First of all I humbly thank those kind visitors who donated in return for the availability of the documentation.

I am happy that the goal some years ago to keep the newcomers to Carver yachts informed of the available documentation like the former company was kind enough to do on their own site.

Nevertheless, the income is far below the cost of the site. These are no big numbers but I feel somewhat uncomfortable in keeping it up for those visitors who download a lot and not donate at all.

The point was and is to not have the documentation float behind a paywall with top listings in search engines by cunningly working that system.

The documentation helps to understand the boats, they are rarely a tight fit to the owners questions about current problems and situations. Some models have poor scanned info, others are shiny brochures, all of them are outdated. Like our boats Therefore, its value can only be set by the downloader and that person can set a price for it, not me.

Very liberal, trustfull and honourable perhaps but in the end there's a mismatch between the number of downloads (so it fullfills a need) and the amount of donations (hard to believe that after all those downloads the value is so little)

All this notwithstanding the great people who donated, I sincerely thank them and am happy to have been part of a solution to their problems or questions about their Carvers.

Therefore I decided to move on and experiment a bit:
- The site will first be extended with advertisements. We all hate them, nobody clicks on them but somehow companies pay for them being placed on a website so here we go.

- after that and when I get some time and motivation for it I will redo the site itself with a better search-find-batch download engine. Iwil It will probably include some non-subtle 'request' for a donation.

- I will not demand payment for a download of a document, that would be against the principle of the site. Besides a hassle with commercial income, taxes, international complexities - it would also mean that I feel that I have to curate all documentation because you need to know what you buy and that it is good when you pay for it.
Note that at the moment one can download first, review and valuate and then donate any amount. The last step apparently is a bit like looking back at the dock with WOT and only then realising that the bag with the food stuff was left on the dock. Oh well, got the cooler with the drinks so keep going!


So the site is now at carverdocs.online (you may get a warning due to the https certificate as the files are hosted below my domain, will fix that when I re-do the site and move it to its own hosting place)

Enjoy the 2025 season!