Upgrading to 56 Carver or 50 Azimut?

A 'Mut with Cats is interesting. Are you looking at already listed ships?
I guess it's o k to send the YW links.

Attn ADMIN: Is that ok?

OB has a point past the dock that needs to be answered. What are you going to do with the boat???

If your serious into value for a long haul, answer OB's question and we can continue from there.

I have been on a couple of fancy carvers with that Star Trek pilot seat. It's absolutely worthless but looks fancy, as some other Mut options.
Beamed females and fat mechanics would prefer the Carvers. Wana be playboys may lean towards the Mut.
I see some value in a properly cared for Cat boat over a Cummings boat as a slight edge pending the Cat power (NOT small 31 series).
Dock side I can see someone comparing the two directly but they are entirely two different floating @$%^& (boats).

Oh, I'm not biased. Where did you get that thought.

I managed a 2005 50' Azimut for a while. It was a pretty decent running and handling boat. 25 knot cruise with CATs. The Carver is much slower and not as well constructed. Some items/parts will drive you crazy and have to be ordered from Italy. The Azimut has about a million bridge cushions and they're expensive to replace when they need to be. The one I ran had a passerelle and ended up in CA. Overall a decent boat.

But rather than either, I'd find a Searay Sedan Bridge. I ran a 2006 52' quite a bit and it's a good running boat with good construction and layout and has Cummins and quality parts..... Or a 58'.

I would take the Neptunus and Searay over either an Azimut or Carver any day of the week and twice on Sundays. The Azimut will drive you completely crazy ordering parts for it. Most all of the systems are Italian. When I managed the one, it was 2 years old and IMPOSSIBLE to get a new light fixture that matched for the overhead aft deck lighting and I'm in Fort Lauderdale.

You can go through the boat and a lot of times and convert from the Euro parts to US, but it takes so ingenuity sometimes. Another example is 3 years ago I bought a freshwater pump from the Azimut dealer here, only pump in the US, it comes and was manufactured 7 years prior and looks like it had been rolling around in a pickup bed for a day. I install it, about 90 days out it fails ($1850 pump) I call the dealer......parts only have a 30 day warranty.......Can order a new one from Italy but 3 week delivery time. I drove to Headhunters factory (because they're the only ones that made a 24 volt DC pump large enough) and they literally had to build a pump/expansion tank, plumbing, etc. to convert it while I was standing there, yet I still had to search out some euro plumbing fittings elsewhere. Azimut USA stocks plenty of props and shafts but hardly any of your everyday parts that fail as well. On the other hand the 50' doesn't have too many systems and it's a pretty good sea boat and cruises 25 knots at 55 gph if I remember right.

Skippy J likes those SeaRays. But I think them to be a fair weather 15 to 20 kt over priced Bayliner.
The Carvers can move a bit but not as fast, lil fatter forward.

The Neptunus is the best of all you have mentioned (IMO). Better all-round with some speed.

There has been some past Neptunus post here on YF.
If you can search & find them, would make some good reading.