Hello all carver owners, I have just purchased a 83 3607 aft cabin she is twin diesel internationals. she is in good shape but is need of tlc. I am excited to begin bringing her up to excellent condition. She is located near Tampa Fl in marina.
I look forward to chatting on this forum I am sure it will help in my mission to bring her to like new condition.
Best Regards,
Steve

I just bought a 2000 Carver 450 Voyager Pilot House and brought it home up the ICW in Florida. Now home, it's time to replace out-of-date, worn-out, and non-working items (not that a Harman-Kardon laser disk isn't a great option).
I'm looking for general advice:
Best place to buy general boating items
Best place to buy Carver specific items
Best place/way to buy/get replacement mattresses (at least one of my mattresses looks like a Civil War bandage)
Anything you would recommend
Etc.
After a two-day cruise home on the ICW all I'm really sure of is that 560 gallons of diesel is expensive and I hate sailboats (Ok, maybe hate is a strong word but between "Stay out of my wind" and "I can't handle a wake", they sure slow you down in the channel.)

If you have something to share I'd like to learn. Thanks

87MSS

My mechanism for opening the cabin door need help, I am trying to find the mfg of the door lock and hatch release, If you dont have a Carver that opens the door and hatch at the same time you likely dont understand the problem.
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I'm considering installing an electric windlass on the "Damn Boat", a 1983 3607AC. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should run away from, what is good, and approximately what it is going to cost me?

Also, any decent marine salvage yards around the mid-south?

Thanks

Ed

I have a 2000 356 and I am looking where to get the main 110v breaker for my boat. It is a 3 pole breaker but only has one switch. Tried West Marine but no help. Any Ideas ???????????

The admiral really wants to have installed a permanent bench seat on the bow of our 396. She is not comfortable sitting and rising from the sun pads.

There is a small space across the bow below the window and above the non-skid. Has anyone added a bench of some type to a 396 and, if so, please provide some thoughts, suggestions, pics, etc.

Thanks.

Tom Gebler

Looking to pull my shaft out of my 1998 370 Carver Voyager. What size is the socket to pull the coupling off?

Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving.

We just sold our boat and are ready to buy a 2002 or newer 530 or 570 Voyager on the West Coast. We are in the SF Bay Area but will be looking in SO Cal through the winter. If we don't find one in California by spring we will be willing to look in the PNW. Looking for turn key clean, mid time boat and not a water condo. Please contact me if you are ready to sell
Rusty Mayes

I saw the post where someone had sold their Carver, so I thought I would post also. I was previously nharrison5 on this forum and you guys helped educate me a tremendous amount in working through the systems on my Carver 33 SS. I decided to sell it in September and sold it in October. Everyone looking at it told us it was the cleanest boat they had seen, including the new owner.

I will be back in the market next year. I got tired of having two engines to work on, and as I mentioned in several posts here, the yards on this lake and the lake, one lock north, have provided really poor work when I had to use them. In fact, of 6 items I asked one yard to correct, not one was repaired correctly and I had to repair myself. Not one.

The other yard put me off pulling my boat for four months with dripping dripless shaft seals. When they finally replaced them, they didn’t bother to polish the shafts, even though I went through the repair process with them including the need to be cleaned and polished. Drove the boat back to home port 27 miles away, and when I checked the seals they were leaking! As I was leaving on vacation the next morning, I called them and they came and got the boat. Fast forward a week, I get to my boat, the shaft seals are no longer leaking, unfortunately, they left the boat tied on the side of the visitors dock with no power, and the new house battery was completely drained.

So, when I look for a different boat, it will have one diesel engine, and hopefully light enough to pull at a small marina around the corner, where I can do my own work.

Loved the boat, really enjoyed it. But unfortunately the poor state of repair yards here precluded me keeping it. One thing I did enjoy greatly was the advice and counsel from all of you folks on here. Will still be on here, and will join in when I have something to add, and of course, will continue to ask questions of you guys. Thank you very much, each one of you, for all the help you provided over the past 4 years.