View Poll Results: How many hours do you put on your engines per year? If own multiple boats, put total.
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0-25 hours
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1.59% |
25-50 hours
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2 |
3.17% |
50-75 hours
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0% |
75-100 hours
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8 |
12.70% |
100-150 hours
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16 |
25.40% |
150-200 hours
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10 |
15.87% |
200-300 hours
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5 |
7.94% |
300-500 hours
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11 |
17.46% |
500-1000 hours
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8 |
12.70% |
Over 1000 hours
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3.17% |
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08-24-2015, 12:53 PM
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#1
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Average annual engine hours.
A lot of our discussions here start to evolve around how much one actually uses their boat away from the dock, specifically how many engine hours per year. So this question is based on current usage and/or the last couple of years.
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08-24-2015, 01:28 PM
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#2
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Guru
City: Tri Cities, WA
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 4,406
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I voted 75-100 though it may be higher than that. It used to be well over a hundred but we put in a pool. That has seriously cut into the time we spend on the boat. It's kind of a double edge sword.....while we don't get out on the water as much, it is very nice to slip into a pool, so we get a lot of time IN the water.
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Mike and Tina
1981 Boston Whaler 13'
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08-24-2015, 01:46 PM
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#3
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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400-500 and .....
....another 400-500 on the assistance boat....
...someone else's gas, insurance, maintenance....may be sorry to see that end this year...but won't miss the 24X7X8 months standby!!!!
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08-24-2015, 02:00 PM
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#4
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by psneeld
400-500 and .....
....another 400-500 on the assistance boat....
...someone else's gas, insurance, maintenance....may be sorry to see that end this year...but won't miss the 24X7X8 months standby!!!!
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But then you can spend 1000 hours on your boat.
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08-24-2015, 02:08 PM
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#5
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Guru
City: Sarasota,FL/Thomasville,GA
Vessel Name: Steppin Stone IV
Vessel Model: Marine Trader Kelly Trawler 46
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,815
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I am only 18 months into our first big boat in many years I am at 709 hours on it that much time
BandB how about you
Great thread poll
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08-24-2015, 02:12 PM
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#6
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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Nah....going back to work for Northstar Marine I think...maybe West Marine if I want to work inside in the AC, bug free environment for once.
Northstar is kinda fun...getting to run their 83 foot crew/work boat and pushing barges more often.
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08-24-2015, 02:19 PM
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#7
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Guru
City: Sarasota,FL/Thomasville,GA
Vessel Name: Steppin Stone IV
Vessel Model: Marine Trader Kelly Trawler 46
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,815
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SO I did the 500-1000 although year one 488 I think year 2 will be 650 range with the trips we have planned
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08-24-2015, 02:20 PM
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#8
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by siestakey
I am only 18 months into our first big boat in many years I am at 709 hours on it that much time
BandB how about you
Great thread poll
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We're right at 1,000, just a little over, for the last three years. That includes some very long runs though. We're at a much lower pace now. The last two months we've been at about a 600 hour per year pace. I'm guessing over time we'll be closer to 800-900.
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08-24-2015, 03:23 PM
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#9
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Guru
City: Solomons Island Md
Vessel Name: Fryedaze
Vessel Model: MC 42 (Overseas Co) Monk 42
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 1,720
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The first five years were 200hrs each. This year we have 250 hrs in three months, but then again we are in progress on the Great Loop.
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08-24-2015, 03:28 PM
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#10
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Guru
City: Niceville, FL
Vessel Name: At Last
Vessel Model: 1990 Jefferson 52 Marquessa
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 724
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We have been averaging about 100 to 150 hours a year. Some years higher if we make longer trips.
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08-24-2015, 04:00 PM
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#11
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Guru
City: Cypress Landing Marina (NC)
Vessel Name: Heron (2)
Vessel Model: '88 Cape Dory 28 Flybridge #115
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 1,305
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I expect we'll hit 150 hours this year....at 100 now with lots of good cruising weather ahead. 1st year for the boat so we're acclimating!
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08-24-2015, 05:11 PM
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#12
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 34
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Hi,
Over the ten years we've owned the boat averaged 400 hrs/yr; 3 trips to the Bahamas, Great Loop, Nova Scotia and the Maritimes. Hope to keep doing it.
Roger
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08-24-2015, 06:34 PM
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#13
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Guru
City: Cape May, NJ
Vessel Name: Irish Lady
Vessel Model: Monk 36
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,947
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A little over 500 hours/yr. Most in my center console in reverse fishiing over piles of structure.
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Archie
Irish Lady
1984 Monk 36 Hull #46
Currently in Cape May, NJ
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08-24-2015, 06:46 PM
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#14
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Guru
City: Fort Myers, FL... Summers in the Great Lakes
Vessel Name: Slow Hand
Vessel Model: Cherubini Independence 45
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 12,817
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Probably 300 in the charter boat and 300 in the trawler. In a few years, all 600 in the trawler.
Ted
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08-24-2015, 08:06 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
City: Tacoma
Vessel Name: C:\[ESC]
Vessel Model: 2002 Bayliner 4788
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 285
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63 hours so far this year -- would have been more had it not been for a mechanical problem a few weeks ago, as salmon fishing is just starting to get to full swing.
102 last year.
Hours based on GPS tracks on our chartplotter, so that's time underway not engine runtime (we're sometimes drifting while fishing for example), but it's the easiest number for me to pull and should be very close.
That's pretty normal for us -- we do two or three "long" trips of 20+ hours runtime per year, plus a dozen or two daytrips, fishing trips, or cocktail cruises throughout the year, each at 1-6 hours runtime.
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08-24-2015, 08:30 PM
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#16
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TF Site Team
City: Brisbane
Vessel Name: Insequent
Vessel Model: Ocean Alexander 50 Mk I
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 4,260
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I'm running at 160 hours per year at present, without spending anywhere near as much time on the boat as I want due to some house renovations. They are nearly finished so I'm hoping to increase the annual rate quite a bit.
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08-24-2015, 08:59 PM
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,728
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Before retirement - 75-100 Hrs per year
Post retirement - 150-200 hrs per year
But that's just engine run time. My hours of enjoyment on the boat far exceed the engine hours.
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08-24-2015, 10:03 PM
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#18
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyWright
Before retirement - 75-100 Hrs per year
Post retirement - 150-200 hrs per year
But that's just engine run time. My hours of enjoyment on the boat far exceed the engine hours.
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Funny, this made my geek math side come out. Hours on the boat. That wouldn't count time ashore at destinations or ports on the way. I came up with 4100. Now hours cruising which would count shore time at ports on the way and destinations I came up with 6300. That's a lot of enjoyment in a year. That's 72% of the hours in a year.
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08-24-2015, 10:43 PM
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#19
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Guru
City: Vermont
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 10,076
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We are at about 700 hrs for the year, and around 4500 nm.
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08-25-2015, 05:48 AM
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Guru
City: Adelaide
Vessel Name: Kokanee
Vessel Model: Cuddles 30 Pilot House Motor Sailer
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 3,218
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I was out of commission for almost 6 months over summer for a re-power & re-wire job, so the past year was less than 100 engine hours. Probably another 100 cruising on other people's boats.
Hope to be well over 200 engine hours this year. Plus another 30% or so for me, when under sail power alone.
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