Well, the boat is finally in the water. Watersedge put it in on Wednesday. We went to visit on Wednesday after work and I took these pictures.
On Friday we were off work for Easter so we went out to the marina again to have our "shakedown" cruise and make a punch list of things that weren't quite right. We hoped that everything was going to go well and that we could take our baby home to Island Cove that evening.
Alas, that wasn't to be. There are a few things that are going to have to be fixed on Monday.
1) The Sync gage that tells you if they engines are running in sync does not function. It worked upon startup and then quit. It may just be a loose wire.
2) The port side engine battery seems to be bad. They have to run some tests on it. This boat has 5 battteries; one for each engine, one for the generator and two for the house. (All of the interior systems, lights, vacu-flush, air/heat, fridge, microwave, etc.) The good news was that the house and generator batteries were marked with dates and were all replaced last year.
3) Some water is seeping in around an in-hull sensor. This is not a good thing because it is pretty much a hole in the hull that is plugged with a sensor device. They will have to pull the boat out of the water on Monday and reseal it in it's hole.
4) After starting up the engines we discovered that the boat had 1/8 of tank of fuel on one side and 1/4 on the other. This was very dismaying because we are trading in our boat with almost full tanks. Dan expressed concern to the broker; "How do I even know if the gages are correct?" They came out and put four-5 gallon cans of diesel fuel in the boat. Not much; but at least we can get over to Duffy's gas dock to fill up. That's going to be one expensive fill.
5) At first startup it appeared that the onboard generator was not working. It was not outputting water; which is necessary for it to stay cool and not overheat. After getting the resident expert out to look at it was determined that the water pumps out below the boat; this is a nice feature because it makes the generator very quiet. On our Carver 356 the water from the generator gushes out the side.
All in all the systems all seem to be working. Of course it is going to take some time to figure that out for sure. Hopefully we won't have anymore surprises. : )
I'll take some more pictures once we are at Island Cove.
On Friday we were off work for Easter so we went out to the marina again to have our "shakedown" cruise and make a punch list of things that weren't quite right. We hoped that everything was going to go well and that we could take our baby home to Island Cove that evening.
Alas, that wasn't to be. There are a few things that are going to have to be fixed on Monday.
1) The Sync gage that tells you if they engines are running in sync does not function. It worked upon startup and then quit. It may just be a loose wire.
2) The port side engine battery seems to be bad. They have to run some tests on it. This boat has 5 battteries; one for each engine, one for the generator and two for the house. (All of the interior systems, lights, vacu-flush, air/heat, fridge, microwave, etc.) The good news was that the house and generator batteries were marked with dates and were all replaced last year.
3) Some water is seeping in around an in-hull sensor. This is not a good thing because it is pretty much a hole in the hull that is plugged with a sensor device. They will have to pull the boat out of the water on Monday and reseal it in it's hole.
4) After starting up the engines we discovered that the boat had 1/8 of tank of fuel on one side and 1/4 on the other. This was very dismaying because we are trading in our boat with almost full tanks. Dan expressed concern to the broker; "How do I even know if the gages are correct?" They came out and put four-5 gallon cans of diesel fuel in the boat. Not much; but at least we can get over to Duffy's gas dock to fill up. That's going to be one expensive fill.
5) At first startup it appeared that the onboard generator was not working. It was not outputting water; which is necessary for it to stay cool and not overheat. After getting the resident expert out to look at it was determined that the water pumps out below the boat; this is a nice feature because it makes the generator very quiet. On our Carver 356 the water from the generator gushes out the side.
All in all the systems all seem to be working. Of course it is going to take some time to figure that out for sure. Hopefully we won't have anymore surprises. : )
I'll take some more pictures once we are at Island Cove.
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