Carver 325 little annoyances

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loonies

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Hi everyone,

Is this unique to my boat or is it normal for the water in the head/shower to run towards the bow when you have a shower? In my boat the water always pools at the opposite end to where the drain is ie the drain is towards the stern end of the shower stall. If this is normal I can't believe they didn't setup a drain at both ends. I have to use a squeegee to move the water towards the drain. Granted when underway the drain is functional but it doesn't seem to make much sense at the dock.
 
You gotta put some gas in the boat...

Humor aside, on my 325, at rest, the shower does drain to the rear. But I usually have a minimum of 100 gallons of gas on board, and I use my water tanks rather than city water, so I have up to 50 gallons of water sitting at the stern as well.
 
Actually, my gas tanks and water tanks are all full. The only thing I can think of that may be different is that I don't have a generator and maybe you do. Still if this is the case I would have thought that Carver would have thought of this.
 
Rearrange your "stuff" onboard, moving items away from the bow to the middle or stern of the boat. Target the heaviest items first. Your boat is sitting low at the bow. Or possibly your trim tabs are stuck in the bow down position while the boat is at rest?
 
The trim tabs only do their work when the boat is moving, so its not that. But moving some stuff aft probably will do the trick. It'll make the boat plane better, too!!!
 
I don't have a gen set.

But my boat is a 1995 model - first year of US production (I believe Carver made the boat for export as a "European" model as early as 1992).

Anyway, I do know that Carver did make some changes in the later years; relocated the batteries (mine are behind the Mother-in-Law berth's headboard), re-arranged the flybridge, and so forth, that might have changed the COG at rest. You can try to re-arrange some things, but I read in my Carver Owner's Manual that it takes 1,035 lbs to lower the boat's draft by 1". So how much it will take to squat the stern, I don't know.

Or you can start adding things like I did to the stern; I put a few hundred of pounds of dingy and davits to the swim platform. But if I recall, the shower did drain correctly prior to this.
 
I have a 3396, and with a topped off gas tank and full of water my shower still drains towards the bow. We've leaned to just 'kick' it towards the drain while we're showering. It is a little annoying, but we're dealing with it.
 
Al - They designed a space on the 325 especially for mother-in-laws? Now i'm even more glad i got the 320.

Loonies - Our hulls are the same but i've got the open cockpit, instead of the aft cabin model. for what it's worth (which probably isn't much), mine drains to the stern but i've got v-drives and my engines are under the cockpit sole. i've also got 6 batteries back there (2 for starting and 4 golf cart batteries for the house system), so there's a lot of weight aft in mine. if you can't find enough stuff to shift aft, just invite a few sumo wrestlers on board when you get dirty and need a shower.
 
Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'll opt for eventually adding a house system with golf batteries rather than the sumo wrestlers. Will kill two problems with one stone so to speak and probably cheaper than trying to fatten up the mother-in law and keeping her back there. She's a bit on the thin side.

At least I'm not the only one with this problem in a Carver. Still love the boat regardless and am looking forward to cruising up to Georgian Bay in a week or so. Maybe all the extra junk I'll be carrying will sink the aft end enough to change the drainage.

John
 
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