Carver 36 Aft Cabin

Used to run a 1987 37 aft. Tried to find my papers from when I brought it to Florida, but too many papers ago. I remember that we cruised at about 17kts. and 111 nm brought us real close to running on fumes. Hope that helps. You have to run on both engines. One engine will only get you about 6 kts. and have you working hard for control. Remember those engines are offset. Reversing is all done with gears. You need to use both for it. PS-I had that boat in a 7' following sea. You don't want to be there.

FLo-Scans are about $900. A lot of money to spend on a 1990 36 when a short cruise and a little math will do. As I read in Subsailor's other thread, he can find his sweet spot simply by bringing it up on plane, check the speed on his GPS, then play with the tabs. With 1990 Crusaders I'd cruise @ 80% max unless I were pushing time.

I just took possession of a 1990 Carver 3607 Aft Cabin on Friday and have an interest in the fuel consumption as well. I do plan to eventually add Flo-Scans...maybe later this season. The price is closer to $550 and I think it will be well worth the investment.

One of the reasons I liked the Carver 36 is that it is because it has the dual-mode hull. I've been told that fuel usage at cruising speed (about 16 knots) is about .6 to .7 mpg. If you drop down to hull speed(8-9 knots) the mpg. is going to be around 1.5 mpg. I don't know if this is true or not. Time will tell.

While some may say that if you're running a 36 foot motor yacht, gas usage shouldn't be a concern, I think that if I'm running from Portage to South Haven or Chicago and cut gas consumption in half, I may well slow down and do it.

Flo-scans and smart gauges are an interesting item. In the old days very few bothered with the extra calculation bringing it to mpg. We always talked in terms of gph. Just a tid-bit of useless trivia. At .7 nmpg (be sure to take that extra step to nm or calculate speed in mph) at 16 kts. that's 11.2 gph and at $4 per gal. $44.80 per hour x 8 hour day= $358.40 per day to fuel your boat or $1792 for a 5 day cruise before the wife even visits a gift shop. "While some may say that if you're running a 36 foot motor yacht, gas usage shouldn't be a concern," DK if I'd say "concern", but definitely a consideration. Good luck with the new boats guys. Hope they bring you tons of fun.

That's why we didn't mess with mpg before we had those cute gauges...nor do math as soon as our eyes opened.

I received a fairly complete Carver 36 owner's manual with my 1990. If you need copies of anything I have, let me know.

I have the manual for the Marine Air Systems units used in the 3607. It pretty much confirms what RER wrote.

On my 3807 in SoCal - if no water flow - shut down and tap lightly on the pumps for each unit - try each again. The pumps are quirky and it's wise to circulate them at least once a week to overcome marine growth as obstruction.

When the boss sent me a copy of the manual for his 50 Viking SC I was never so impressed. Pics, color, indexed, best manual I'd ever run across. I wonder why most manufacturers don't understand the importance of a good, complete manual.

Subsailor 637, you still out there? your post was from 2010. I too am a sailboater gone power. In Sept. of 2016 I took delivery of a 36ft aft cabin (still sail my 36 Hunter) Carver. Gonna use it as a summer cottage. Anyway, I have speed and rpm questions and thought you might help. I was told by both the PO and the broker that I should run at about 3000 /3100 rpm. I'd like to know what you have learned about speed and rpm.
If I drop down to 2500 rpm my sail boat will out run the Carver. I've not been able to find a rpm performance chart for the 454's.
Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Jack
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