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How to make your Carver go faster!
- hardchines
- First Mate
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- Vessel Info: 1980 Carver
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How to make your Carver go faster!
After a incredible amount of work scrapping the bottom of the boat by hand with a 2.5 inch scrapper, I would vacuum up the old paint off my driveway with a shop vac., I could not believe how heavy the vacuum had become, I opened it up the first time to find it filled to the top, I repeated the filling and emptying 3 more times before the boat was cleaned off, I captured 128 lbs of old paint it is unknown how much paint I lost as I worked in front of a commercial floor fan blowing on me through out the scrapping process !!
I repainted the bottom of the boat and did all trailer work, the boat was actually capable of being winched 2 feet on the trailer with the new rollers, very happy as it would not move a inch before the rollers were changed! I now wonder if the removal of the very rough thick paint from the bottom will have any effect on my cruise speed, who knows maybe I can get her up to 6.2 MPH!
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- Vessel Info: 1989 Carver 3807 Aft Cabin
- Location: Ontario, Canada
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- km1125
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Re: How to make your Carver go faster!
j/k!!!
I know that's a lot of work. Several years ago I also chipped off all the old paint and repainted!!
- mjk1040
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- Vessel Info: 1998 355 AC/MY "Deja Vu"
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Re: How to make your Carver go faster!
I'd Rather Be Boating!
1989 Sea Ray Seville
1986 Carver Mariner 32'
1990's Thompson 22' Cuddy Cabin
1990's 4Winns 245 Vista Cruiser
1980's Thompson 19' Open Bow
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- Vessel Info: 1998 Carver 355
Suspicious Fishes !
2022 Kawasaki 310X - Location: upper chesapeake bay
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Re: How to make your Carver go faster!
- hardchines
- First Mate
- Posts: 127
- Joined: October 2nd, 2014, 1:38 pm
- Vessel Info: 1980 Carver
2667
Santa Cruz - Has thanked: 8 times
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Re: How to make your Carver go faster!
KM1125 I thought about the CG change, so I installed a ice maker and 30 additional bottles of tonic water under the cabin sole with the 450 pounds of lead ballast and my lightning rod redirect system, and there is still room for for the Gin !
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