Yesterday, Saturday Oct 22, we delivered HOLODECK up the Wareham River to her haul out point for the winter. I winterized her systems while in the water, had her oil and filters changed, and then headed out. We had a mile to the Cape Cod Canal, and then headed east until we reached the end of the land spit. Then a nice and easy (2800 rpm) run up the Wareham RIver. We hit some shallow spots of 7', but were careful and ran her until we came to the to prescribed marina. Docked her like a pro, and just let those two thirsty Big Blocks idle down while listening to the exhaust. Then, as I say to the Admiral on our regular voyages "Is my bow secure? " she answers, "yes", I then ask "Is my stern secure" again, "YES". I then reply "OK, finished with engines trip 17(as I count each voyage)". I shut her down, and we sadly left her at a strange dock with strange people.

On a brighter note, I was in the bilge and the Admiral hit the switch that has a tell tale on it to say the light in the bilge is on! I FOUND THE LIGHT! right under the rear stairwell, by the battery charger.!

Next weekend the dinghy, dock box and the small outboard comes home.

I hope all of your "Finished with engines" delivery goes as well or better than mine went! Although my season did not start until April 1, I am sure it will start early next year!

Hi all, purchased a 1987 Montego 2657 back in July that had been sitting for 10 years. Got what I thought was a pretty good deal at 3k. Spent a lot of time getting her cleaned up to be able to spend the rest of our summer weekends on. We slip out of Grand Haven MI (Coast Guard City USA). As She sits right now she is clean and runs great just needs alot of facial work done. She seems to be a rare bread as I can't seem to find many of them out there yet. However this winter I plan to get a lot of work done on her and share and ask for help when needed (thanks in advance). I love Carvers as I grew up on a 1990 Montego 32.

Hi, I recently purchased a 1986 Carver 4207. Several light bulbs at different locations do not power up. I found all of the switches. But there are a few that do not know.
I don't know which switch is used for the aft deck dome lights. And at the aft cabin as you come down to your right there are two switches, can anyone tell me what they are for?

Please help me in my small, but ugly problem.

After last cyclon I have lost central part of fiberglass wind fence and can not find anywhere this part.
I desided to create it by my self.
Can somebody send the draw of fiberglass wind fence please?

So we had a nice day down here in Middle Tennessee today, Warm, 84, no Humidity, and since we are past the "end of summer" holliday, very few people on the water, A few die hard skiers, fishermen (always out.... strange folk) and cruisers that have been waiting for these days.

We took the kayaks out for a ride. We never paddled them, we had good intentions, but mostly we just gave them a ride. Cruised up and down the river, About 15 or so miles up and then back, a side trip up a creek that I'd never been before, Apparently it just wore Elaine out, she had a unique way of enjoying the trip back. Engine drone and warm breezes put her out every time.


How to get kayaks up to 25 MPh on water


Smooth water


Ahhh...... the wake


We be cruising! Gotta keep the bottom clean


Elaine's ride home.....


Kayak Transport


And then this evening, we had a great full moon. (something special about it being closer, it was big.
A good day.

In a rush to get out of the Marina, a head of Hurricane Matthew, and into our Hurricane hole, the raw water inlet for the port motor was not opened and the motor seems to be cratered. Locked up, oily water in the bilge. The mains are mid 1980's 9.0 International Harvesters. Not sure where to go from here. scrap the boat. Try to find someone to attempt to rebuild the motor? Look for another one? New motors? Any ideas?

HI:

I am looking to move up from a 25ft Crownline. There is a couple of Carvers for sale in my area (Lake Lanier, Ga). All Mid 80"s boats. A 1985 3227. New engines with 75 hours on them. Boat looks very nice. Another one is a 1987 2827.

Can you tell me of any common problems with these boats that I should look for or steer clear of.

Thanks

Bruce J. Scheck
Crownline 250 CR
Lake Lanier, Ga

One of my projects for next year is to clean up the mass of negative cables in my engine compartment. Currently, my 3 battery bank negative cables are jumpered together. It works, but it is messy. I think my solution is to introduce a negative bus bar, connect all the batteries to it, and, connect the bus bar to one of the engines. My current configuration is:

Battery 1 - Group 31 12v.
Battery 2 - 4 6v Trojan T105 in a series parallel setup.
Battery 3 - Group 31 12v Starting battery for the generator.

I have a Victron Battery Monitor monitoring Battery 2 which needs to be the only connection on the negative of that battery bank. This is difficult with all this daisy chaining going on between the battery banks.

I have looked at Blue Sea's site and they have lots of choices I am thinking of the 250A 6 stud bus bar..... is that heavy enough..... thoughts and comments welcome.

Thanks
Fraser

Hi all, we all know Carvers are well built and my 405 was no exception. She took the full brunt of Matthew and survived the storm. I am not back in the area yet due to the damage left behind but will post more after I get see her in person. I have attached a you tube link from my neighbor Manny that he posted today. In the video to the right of Manning's sailboat "Viking", is a blue trawler. To the right of that trawler is our Carver "Change in Latitude". The dock broke two slips seaward from us during Hurricane Matthew and blocked the marina off from the rest of the world. He told me that not seen in the video is a Bertram sport fisher sinking. Our Carver took the hit and survived. The steal pilings are gone and the marina depth runs about 8 feet once inside. I am not sure the weight of Carolina Girl was the issue but probably was contributory. The Piling height may have been exceeded as the surge reached 13 " +.

From what I could see and was told the sundeck railing mounted panels on the port side along with the corner piece is gone. I know members have asked about these to replace in the past. If anybody had luck I would appreciate info on obtaining the panel and especially the corner piece. Thanks

While looking at different models before we got the 350, I noticed that the older Santego panels and some others had indicator lights to tell you when a circuit was in use. This is something that I think is a great feature for just glancing at the panel to see what you have turned on......so to the question , has anyone retrofitted something like this, is it even possible without getting a whole new panel ??