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Carver 4207 Aft Cabin Davit System

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Vessel Info: Playmore is a 1989 Carver 4207 Aft Cabin
Location: Vancouver BC

Carver 4207 Aft Cabin Davit System

Postby Playmore » July 17th, 2025, 8:06 pm

Have an 89 model with davit on top of sundeck. Currently have a 12 ft. Avon dingy weighing 400 pounds dry. Want to change dingy to 600 lb with same dimensions. Davit has no info plate. Does anyone know the capacity of the davit supplied with this Carver.
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Vessel Info: 1992 Carver 36 aft cabin with Volvo 740b engines. Westerbeke 5kw generator. Bought the boat in Portland Oregon in June, and a friend and I brought it up to Sidney, BC. Great trip!
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Re: Carver 4207 Aft Cabin Davit System

Postby MyPleasure » July 25th, 2025, 2:03 pm

Hi, we had the same boat as yours with the davit for the hardtop. We had an 11ft Rendova and then a 10ft Rendova sitting on the hardtop and found a bunch of cracks in the hardtop because of the weight of the Rendovas. The 10ft Rendova probably weighed 600lbs and it still caused more cracks in the hardtop. If I were you, I would keep the dinghy as light as possible to prevent cracking and weakening of the hardtop.
The fella that bought our 4207 told me that he checked with Carver, and they stated that the hardtop was not designed to carry a dinghy, period, but I still see lots of boats with dinghies on the hardtops.
Good luck.
Al
1st Carver 1987 32 Aft Cabin
2nd Carver 1989 4207 Aft Cabin
3rd Carver 1995 350 Voyager
4th (current) 1992 36 Carver Aft Cabin
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MyPleasure
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Posts: 134
Joined: October 18th, 2022, 7:08 pm
Vessel Info: 1992 Carver 36 aft cabin with Volvo 740b engines. Westerbeke 5kw generator. Bought the boat in Portland Oregon in June, and a friend and I brought it up to Sidney, BC. Great trip!
Location: Victoria
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Re: Carver 4207 Aft Cabin Davit System

Postby MyPleasure » August 1st, 2025, 9:10 pm

And the davit was rated at 1000lb capacity according to the manufacturers plate on the davit. It easily lifted the 700 lb 11ft Rendova.
Al
1st Carver 1987 32 Aft Cabin
2nd Carver 1989 4207 Aft Cabin
3rd Carver 1995 350 Voyager
4th (current) 1992 36 Carver Aft Cabin
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