How many hours?
 

How many hours do you put on your boat in a season?
I put on 46 this year and wonder if that's a little, a lot, average, etc.
Just curious, no other reason.
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ufc

I believe 50-60 hours per year is pretty typical for Winnipesaukee based on the number of hours that were on some of the used boats I was looking at last year. I put on 75 hrs this year, but had the kids and their friends at the house often and was doing a lot of tubing.

I average about 120 hours per year.

Silver Duck

I have had my motor for 3-years and and there was an even 150 hours on it when I had it pulled a few weeks ago. The mechanic who repowered my boat told me that 50-hours a year was the average. I guess he was correct if I am any indication.

I put in 30 hours but I suspect you are closer to the average.

Hmmm
 

good question, my hour meter stop moving this memorial day weekend, but I suspect I did over 50 hours this summer, this past saturday alone I did about 3.5 hours on the motor and 1 hr at a sand bar I am taking it apart to look it it this winter

Well -- Looks like I fall into the same category as Silver Duck -

We do watch the hour meter per season, and for the past 3 years our average is 130-140hrs/season. Thats down now that we tend to head to the sand bars and anchor more than we did in earlier times.

Well by reading the threads below I'm way, way below average at 10 to 12 hours per year, however the pontoon boat runs around 23 to 30 hours per year. Guess with that many hours on each we saved a lot more money than the rest of ya. :laugh:

I have about 540 hours after six full seasons, so an average 90 hours.

Be careful about trusting the hours on boats, some have unreliable connections that "accidently" come apart for a few months each season. A lot of boats, like mine, have an hour meter built into the engine computer, those ahould be pretty hard to cheat.

exactly right JRC ...... also, as we did, if you have your speedometer changed out for a new one (ours broke under warrenty) ... your reset back to zero.

NOT !! the chip in the engine is what the marina's look at !!

Also a good point to note for those out there looking at used boats

I also dug upthe records on our former boat -- we traded it after 5 seasons with 785 hours (157hr/yr avg). Guess we're not slowing down as much as i thought :D

I guess I am in the minority
 

With over 350 hours this season.

40 hours on the lake....4000 in my mind.

Wow, that's a lot of time. Just curious what you do to get all those hours? Does the mount have that many hours of run time? I must admit I am jealous.

Great Question
 

We've managed to average just over 76 hours per season on Winnipesaukee over the past 9 years.

I'm very curious too about the 350+ hours - that's impressive!!

That is an estimate,
 

But here is how I got to it, working just under 30hrs a week for 10 weeks, plus the hours prior to high season, add in my personal boating time and the fact I am still boating and working on the water, I will easily eclipse 400.

I was going to guess working on the Lake
 

But I thought maybe Marine Patrol boat. I couldn't think of anything else operating on the water 5 hours per day 7 days per week (or some similar combination)

No Fair WiersBeachBoater -- deduct the Mount (not your boat) and what do you have ??

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