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Just picked up my new 2000 530 Voyager with Volvo 122's/610HP
Ran it from Boston to Greenport NY in some pretty snotty weather. Boat ran great and im very happy with her performance. Per GPS stats the Trip was just under 150 miles & took 8+hr

Spent about 90+min under 10knot’s leaving Quincy/getting out to Cape Cod Bay & going threw the CC Canal.

When conditions allowed we cruised at 21/22 knots running around 1925RPM.
Backed down to around 18Knots when really rough
With the wheels that are on the boat know we can reach 27knots at 2220RPM
WOT should be 2250RPM .

Im very ok with its performance & I have a bunch of $’s I need to spend now for a Sat system, some Nav upgrades, oh yea Taxes!
After the smoke clears I may have a set of Katapult wheels made like I did for my last boat which was a 50 Cruisers with 12Litr Cats/660Hp The Katapult should give me 2-4 more Knots threw out the range.This will help with fuel burn as well




As of now she’s a keeper!


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SWEET. Congrats and welcome aboard.

Welcome aboard!

Welcome the the forum and Carver......nice, sounds like great performance.......

3dognight, now there's a blast from the past!

Welcome Aboard. Hope you have many fine adventures aboard your yacht. Definitely a very nice boat.

Viper wrote:Source of the post 3dognight, now there's a blast from the past!

Most of my past boats were named 3 dog night because we always seem to have 3 dogs. I'm down to one mutt now so will be having a new name

Welcome! She's sweet!

Hello 3 Dog Night. Sounds like you are Savvy with prop knowledge. I have the same boat as you but a year older. I've learned a little on the maintenance on those Volvos. I love mine now that I've got them running clean. My performance specs are about the same as yours. I do have prop drama going on right now. Hoping to find someone that knows a good prop to run on these 530s with the 122 Volvos.

Hi Alaska, good 'meeting' you and I expect we're going to be chatting about a lot of things. Ive been a CAT & Cummins guy and hope my 122's turn me into a Volvo lover as well. Right now i'm in deep like with them but barely have a season with them.. It took many attempts to dial in the props on my 50' Cruisers and im hopping for less on the Voyager. I'll try a new set in the spring & see what i can squeeze out of it
I have 28x 32 wheels on the boat now & the PO had 28x 33 on before. .
What's going on with your setup?