Tomorrow going to view a 2007 Voyager 52 Volvo D-9s. 2500 hours. records for the last 5 years. New turbos in 2023. Boat has been in charter for at least last 3 years. Aftercoolers and heat exchangers serviced June 2025.
I'm used to Cummins 6CTA8.3 and some what suspicious of Volvo. I m in Seattle so is boat.
Any comments on reliability of D-9s , maintenance and repair issues, ?
Recommendations for a really good Volvo Mechanic/engineer in this area?

Thanks for any Help whatsoever,
Jim Miller

I'm not even sure what to call this piece, but it's a painted aluminum insert through which the engine room blowers take suction. The clips visible on the side hold a vinyl pad which I've removed. I can't see any mounting hardware that attaches this to the fiberglass hull. Has anyone ever seen these removed? Desperately needs recoating and I'd like to remove them and do it if possible.

Good Day All,

Reaching out to the community for help in sourcing a st'bd side replacement muffler for our 1997 320 Voyager.

The original muffler was manufactured by Naqualift. This is a four inch, two in, one out horizontal setup. Engines are Crusader 350XL's.
Have reached out to Great Lakes Skipper, Marine Parts Source as well as other distributor's. They are unable to cross reference this it seems.
The Carver part number is 5111701. Any help or advice on where to head next would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for all replies.
cheers, Capt Happy

Hello everyone! I’m new to the forum. Nice to e-meet you all!

I own a 1995 carver aft cabin. I was using appliances on the port side and I believe I tripped the breaker. I went outside and made sure the shore power was working, turned switches off and on. On the panel, I only have a Shore #1 breaker which works supplying power to the starboard side (volts), however, the amps go slightly up for the port side and go back to 0.
GFCI outlets can’t be reset for port side but starboard side ones work fine. I unplugged everything, reset shore power and I’m having no luck. Does anyone know if there is an AC breaker hidden somewhere? I checked cabinets and all. Even under the stairs I see only battery switches. Please help if anyone knows this model well - owners manual is no help at all.

2025 My Season By The Numbers

2025 was a good year. I traded in my 22 Stingray 182 SC for a 23 Sun Tracker Party Barge 22 DLX pontoon demo boat with a 115 HP Mercury Pro XS outboard at the Detroit Boat Show in February. Price was right. I never saw myself as a pontoon boat owner until my Son purchased one in 2019 and I found I liked the stability a pontoon boat has along with the room to move around.

I did most of my boating on the Detroit River, Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. I did trailer up to northern Michigan and I launched on Lake Superior, Higgins Lake, Houghton Lake, Elk Lake, Lake Skegemog and South Lake Leelanau. That’s one of the reasons I trailer my boat. Can go anywhere and launch.

I think I can say I had a pretty good season overall.
The numbers:

23 Launches

5 Day trips to Put-in-Bay Ohio

70.0 Hours on the engine

803.7 Miles travelled

209.964 Gallons of rec fuel used

3.82 MPG

2.99 GPH

$874.00 Dollars cost of rec fuel

$900.00 Boat storage fee Gibraltar Storage

$476.99 Garmin ECHOMAP UHD2 53CV+TRANSDUCER

$904.18 Mount 3rd cleat starboard mount Garmin GPS/Sonar

$125.25 Put on MC#’s and boat name

$33.39 Pkg. of 4 rail mount fender holders

$36.72 2 rail mount flag poles and American flags

$84.75 Amazon for plow style stainless steel anchor

$198.68 Quicksilver Spare propeller

$232.14 Mercury propeller to replace damaged propeller

$202.44 Replace unrepairable trailer tire

$374.51 Replace broken trailer tail lights

$67.83 Starbrite canvas waterproofing

$146.61 New battery (left master control switch on)

$13.76 Bought spare set of keys for boat

$1139.71 Winterize engine grease hubs shrinkwrap boat

$5810.96 monies spent on boating. Worth every penny. Some of the expenses are one time expenses and shouldn’t be repeated.

Hello! We have a 1993 Carver 440 aft cabin twin Cat 3116 engines that we are planning on cruising the Bahamas with. Has anyone taken their 440 down south as far as Puerto Rico?

I have a fuel smell in the cabin of my carver 355. It is in the cabin only, there is no fuel smell in the engine compartment. The fuel tanks and fuel lines are good not leaking. Looking to see if anyone else has had this problem and what the fix was.

Need some help! I am not on the boat. Most of the electrical load is off, but the shore power breaker on the pier pedestal keeps tripping. I'm on a 50 amp double pole breaker. I've removed the y-adapter and only feed the port side receptacle on the stern (no power to AC's). Water heater is off. biggest electrical loads are cyclic with the fridge and battery charger. Any ideas on what i need to check? Breakers on the boat are not tripping, nor is the small fuse on the stern receptacle

Calling all my sister ship owners. I have the ‘04 366 variant but I believe my questions/issues are related to all three models.
1. The seat in the aft shower. I have some gaps at various points around it and I’m pretty sure that’s how relatively clean water is getting into my aft bilge. Quite a lot after a couple showers. And no, it’s not the sump overflowing or leaking. Anyone else have this issue and have you found a solution short of a bead of silicon all around the edge?
2. The Charles C-Charger. Anyone replaced this? My exhaust is huge and almost completely covers and blocks access to the charger. Did you have to remove the entire muffler to gain access? What size/model did you go with?
3. Rode locker drain. Does your chain/rode locker drain externally or does it all drip down into the forward bilge? I keep getting muddy chain marks and water all down in the very forward section that has a small hole and seems to overfill into the forward bilge with no way/access to clean the very forward section.
I appreciate any/all feedback and any other problems and solutions you’ve tackled. I know all boats are a compromise but I had the previous hull (350) prior and this one seems to have even worse access.

This is so sad, cannot believe we need to renew our boaters license every 5 years now in Canada with a fee attached. In the end, it seems like all they are looking for is address changes that might have occurred not to mention money.

https://cheknews.ca/transport-canada-ma ... e-1298051/