Hey Kevin - Doug here (the guy that had the messed up 4207 in Nashville). Have watched the whole series; definitely makes you think, "Do I really want a boat?" Be curious to hear your overall rating of the experience. I ended up swapping the Carver for an '88 Wellcraft Portofino 4300. Much simpler boat to figure out. The dealer I swapped with ended up putting $18K into the Carver (electrical and a head rebuild, which did not work). He finally sold for $45K to a couple that just wanted a floating condo. Oh, well. Thanks again for the videos. Cheers.
Great videos. Just curious, could you have gone at a faster speed to make it to Clearwater in daylight? Or left Pensacola earlier? I hope to do the Loop someday, and would prefer to do the crossing in daylight.
We had to slow down because of fuel, and that made us push until well after dark. We left before sunrise and maybe could have gone 20 minutes earlier and still had light but it wouldn't have mattered too much later in the day.
This boat was recently purchased by a friend and he wants it down in the Florida Keys for the winter. This boat will come back to Chicago in the spring most likely. The boat did sit for a little while and I think the previous owner let a few things go before he sold it. A lot of the work that has been done has been to the engines and some of the other issues just need to be sorted out. This boat has so many systems including four different voltages!
Well I kind of made the decision to skip my plan of doing the Great loop. Your video series made it extremely clear how fragile older boats are. I've had two boats previously and the bigger they get the more stuff breaks. Some of the issues that you had to deal with came from not having a maintenance schedule such as cleaning the sea strainers which caused overheating. Doing it underway was a little silly because of the steering issue. Also well and transmission fluid changes should have been done before the trip began as well as changing the impellers. Yes stuff breaks but this boat is totally out of control.
Hey Kevin - Doug here (the guy that had the messed up 4207 in Nashville). Have watched the whole series; definitely makes you think, "Do I really want a boat?" Be curious to hear your overall rating of the experience. I ended up swapping the Carver for an '88 Wellcraft Portofino 4300. Much simpler boat to figure out. The dealer I swapped with ended up putting $18K into the Carver (electrical and a head rebuild, which did not work). He finally sold for $45K to a couple that just wanted a floating condo. Oh, well. Thanks again for the videos. Cheers.
Never give up.
Sorry to see this end!
More to come in Spring!
Great videos. Just curious, could you have gone at a faster speed to make it to Clearwater in daylight? Or left Pensacola earlier? I hope to do the Loop someday, and would prefer to do the crossing in daylight.
We had to slow down because of fuel, and that made us push until well after dark. We left before sunrise and maybe could have gone 20 minutes earlier and still had light but it wouldn't have mattered too much later in the day.
@@waterwethinking1142 thanks, good to know. You seemed to have had your share of challenges with that particular boat.
I dig the videos! But what is the deal with this boat? Why are you moving it? Why is it in such disrepair?
Agree. At one point, I skimmed episode 1 of this series to see why he is moving the boat but didn't find the reason.
This boat was recently purchased by a friend and he wants it down in the Florida Keys for the winter. This boat will come back to Chicago in the spring most likely. The boat did sit for a little while and I think the previous owner let a few things go before he sold it. A lot of the work that has been done has been to the engines and some of the other issues just need to be sorted out. This boat has so many systems including four different voltages!
@@waterwethinking1142 220, 221 .. Whatever it takes.
@@kevinbuckley4231 nice reference!
Well I kind of made the decision to skip my plan of doing the Great loop. Your video series made it extremely clear how fragile older boats are. I've had two boats previously and the bigger they get the more stuff breaks.
Some of the issues that you had to deal with came from not having a maintenance schedule such as cleaning the sea strainers which caused overheating. Doing it underway was a little silly because of the steering issue. Also well and transmission fluid changes should have been done before the trip began as well as changing the impellers.
Yes stuff breaks but this boat is totally out of control.
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Don't know why you seemed so disappointed to be finally getting off that expensive piece of crap of a boat.
Sometimes it is the journey that makes the most memories. I bet you wouldn't watch if nothing happened!