Carver Owners Forum

First boat was a Riviera.
Might have found another project.
Anybody know if both engines are standard rotation on both sides, or is one reverse?

I've seen counter rotators on models as late as 1996.

Thanks.
It needs engines. Maybe just blocks, heads and manifolds.The guy didn't winterize it and owes 10k in storage fees. I can get the boat for a buck. My name is on it.

Wow....what year ? I think I remember you saying you had one before.

I think it's an 87.
My wife, who taught me how to be cheap, was embarrassed when I offered a buck. But we made a deal.
Assuming it all goes through, I'll have yet another boat. The Riviera was a great boat.
This one has a hard top. That's the one thing we wished we had on our first one. When it rained, things were damp.
I'll take the electronics from the Mariner, install that stuff on the Riviera, and get some new Furuno stuff for the Mariner.

Can't wait for you to start a new thread for the work in progress on that one

We have a (new to us) 1986 Riviera 2807 that suffered a similar fate. Engines have been rebuilt but we seem to have a leak in the water system. Any ideas where we could find resources such as engineering diagrams to figure out what goes where?

If mercruiser, or crusader, there are on line manuals for both.

The guy that owns the boat and froze everything, owes the marina over ten k, won't cooperate. So now the long process to simply take the boat. It'll be at least 90 days.