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Old 02-29-2020, 10:27 AM   #1
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How many hours do you have?

Last night while we were trying to calculate how many gallons of beer we have consumed in our lives, we gave up and shifted to hours on the water.

So, just a fun question; how many hours do you guess you have under way?
If you want to break it down into commercial, naval and pleasure, that would be interesting.

On boats with hour meters, I can guess accumulated time at about 2,500 hours but that is probably only the half of it.
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Old 02-29-2020, 10:44 AM   #2
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Good topic but a tough one to add up.

1. I got my first boat (row boat) at age 5 and probably spent 4 hours a day, all summer, for 2 years. 4hours x 6 days/week x 4 months of summer x 2 years = 192
2. At age 7 I got a motor. Same formula except 4 years = 384
3. At age 11 I got a Sailfish. Same formula as #2 = 384
4. In 1990 I got a 20' bow rider, 200 hours a year x 10 years = 2000
5. In 2000 I bought an express cruiser, 150 hours x 10 years = 1500
6. In 2010 we bought our current boat, 200 hours x 10 years = 2000
7. Concurrent with #4 and #5 above I chartered twice, 4/day x 7 days x 2 charters = 56.

Total = 4516 hours and that doesn't count countless hours in a canoe on the local rivers. Wow, that's 188 days, and that's just engine hours on the last 4 listed which doesn't count hours spent over nighting or anchored for a day.

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Old 02-29-2020, 11:03 AM   #3
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well I remember........no I don't
This week 5 x 24 with one more day will be 144 hours
8 other 24 hr days this year 192
Winter months we use it as a floating condo at the dock
Hmm with 14 days this year, I guess I have reached the average for most boats in marinas I have been in.
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Old 02-29-2020, 11:07 AM   #4
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Old 02-29-2020, 11:19 AM   #5
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For me, about the same as GFC except to add that in the 60's I was into waterskiing. Probably 10 hours a day, 3 months a year for about 7 or 8 years. Half skiing, half driving.

Lots of hours, lots of fun

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Old 02-29-2020, 11:25 AM   #6
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1983-87, 2300
1988-1992, 2100
1993-1998, 2500
1999-2006, 3300
2007-2012, 2500
2013-960
2014-980
2015-800
2016-800
2017-1000
2018-900
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19,000

Wifey B: 19,000 - 8,000 =11,000

Estimated nautical miles 342,000 and 198,000

Today, projected 6 hours, 90-100 nm.
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Old 02-29-2020, 11:45 AM   #7
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This is the hardest part of the OUPV qualification.
Only reason I was able to even estimate the hours was all the time I spent reconstructing sea time from the age of 16 to the age of 42, when I first realized I might want it, then maintaining since then. Easy to record as you do it, but going back 25 years was a major task. Only way I was able was my father made me record the fuel purchases so he could verify the credit card charges and then I started logging all expenditures when I started paying.

As a teenager, it was amazing how on a small lake I could fill up with gas 3 times in one day, 5 or 6 times from Friday afternoon through Sunday. Think my first boat used about 5 gph on average but only held 24 gallons.
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Old 02-29-2020, 11:49 AM   #8
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About 11,000 engine hours so far on our own power boats. Another 10-12 weeks on chartered sail.
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Old 02-29-2020, 12:03 PM   #9
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This is tough to answer. We lived on the water growing up, I helped my dad commercial grouper fish for 6 or 8 years. I shrimped a couple of winter breaks. I tarpon or snook or trout fished a couple of days most every week for most of my life. we had a laser and a Hobie 16 growing up. I worked at a beach sailboat rental place teaching sailing in summer when I was in high school. I was a tarpon guide for 13 years, fishing 70 days a year, 10 hours a day.

We have made 12 or 15 trips to the Bahamas, 2 to 4 weeks each. Four or five Caribbean bareboat charters two weeks each. Numerous trips around Florida on our current boat.

I was a partner in a houseboat we would take way out into the Louisiana Marsh for a couple of weeks each year duck hunting.

I don't even know how to guess. I'm 55. 35,000 hours?
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Don't have my records handy, but I need atleast 365 days every 5 years for captain's license renewal since 1984. Then there was 365 to get the first license. That's roughly 2,900 days. Assuming around 8 hours a day, that would be over 23,000 hours.

Then there are the recreational hours on 8 different power boats......

I tend to think of boat time in days going boating, probably over a decade of my life.

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I just count days, or weeks or months. Easier
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At least 2000 hrs,I think. Maybe more..
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At least 2000 hrs,I think. Maybe more..
I think your short a couple of zeros if including work.

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Luckily none of the hours on a boat are counted against your lifespan.
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Anywhere between 100 and 250 hours a year since 1975. I never kept a detailed log until buying Irish Lady 6 years ago. That's also not counting being on others boats. Come to think about it the last 5 years have been closer to 400. 200-250 in FL in the winter plus another 150-200 in NJ in the summer. Retirement is a wonderful thing.
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I think your short a couple of zeros if including work.

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CG says I get 273.75 days of sea time per year.... Days,nor hours. soooo, times that by 40 plus years at sea and I think I exceed my 2000 hrs estimate by I few hundred hrs at least. Still chicken of the sea, and as TF get together types heard ,Mercenary of the sea.lol
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Not for me. Only battle scars. I've been accused of a lot of things, but never been accused of being a boy scout..
A little rough around the edges here...but still play nice with the other kids. Just ask the 2020 TF get together crew
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Somewhere between 15-18000 hrs
Wish more had been paid vs. paying for them
Everything for a 10' hydroplane to a 65' sailing cat to a 75' foil assisted passenger ferry..still looking to fly a hovercraft.

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