Howdy all, I have a 2004 564CPMY with the Volvo D12 engines. I was looking to get spare props, but do not want to pull the boat out of the water. Does anyone know where I can get the correct prop size and pitch? according to my survey I have 2.25 shafts. Thanks for the help.

I am closing on a 1996 500 Cockpit Motoryacht at the end of this month in Charleston SC. I need to drive her back to Cortez FL and was wondering what kind of fuel consumption I can expect at both planing and hull speeds. I plan on cruising around 18 knots when I can. She has the 8.3L 6CTA 420HP Cummins diesels. I have heard 1.5MPG off plane but I don't know at what speed or RPM that would be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve got loose and saggy water damaged vinyl panels in the salon by the side windows. Does anyone have any suggestions to replace? I was thinking of just cutting out the vinyl, fill, fair and paint the area? Unless it bare fiberglass then that is too much work. I’d rather not remove the windows.

Hi everyone on the carver forum , I’m writing from Ireland ,to kindly ask if you can advise the dimensions of the water tank in the carver Monterrey 27 circa 1981 ?
Thankyou, kind regards
Brendan

Interesting article in the paper today about folks that are retiring for one maybe two years at sea. Some of the cruise lines offer these at around 40K cad ( About 30K usd ) each per year.......can be more depends on cabin.
Apparently these are all inclusive......sounds surprisingly reasonable to me. Anyone ever consider these offerings?

This crossed my path this morning. Looked interesting, thought I would share.
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I recently aquired a 2001 396 Carver Aft Cabin.
I am not able to locate the aft bildge pump or the forward bildge pump.
The forward bildge is not under any of the access panels in the forward state room.
There is no access panel on the galley floor. I imagine its in the engine room behind the generator but I have yet to find it.
Regarding the aft bildge pump. I pulled up the carpet in the aft state room and removed all the access panels and no bildge pump. I did find the shower sump pump.
Could it be that Carver would hide the aft bildge pump under the shower sump? If so, you would have to remove all the drain hoses from the shower sump and the tub just to check the if the bilge pump functions. Would Carver actually do that or did the previous owner change things? I am the 3rd owner.
My marina neighbor has the same boat but a 2003. The forward bildge pump is under an access plate on the galley floor and the rear bildge pump is easily accessable under an access cover in the aft state room.
When I had the boat surveyed the surveyor noted the lack of easy access to to pumps an "area of concern and needs to be addressed".
Any comments are greatly appreciated.

So I have twin1976 Ford 351 Windsor engines and they both will just shut down after running for a while then start back up then shut down again usually at the worst possible time
Coming back to the slip. im switching over to electronic ignition in a week or two as im tired of dealing with points and thought that may be the issue. Doesn't over heat and batteries read ok. What's your thoughts? Thanks.

Hello and thanks for welcoming me to this community and forum. I’m sure I will learn lots from all of you and maybe I can be of some help to others.

Upon inspection of the battery switch on my 1989 Carver 3467 I noticed I had a 60 amp breaker tripped. This breaker is located in a compartment to the left of the sliding glass door which leads in to the salon from outside. When I pulled the panel to investigate I noticed the breakers were tied together both at the line and load sides of the breaker. They appear to have been installed as such from the factory. I understand the tie bar on the line side to feed both breakers. The load side is where I struggle. Each 60 amp breaker feeds an engine. Why would they be tied on the load side.......redundancy?

Thanks for your help.