Hours per season

We're coming up on the end of our third season on the SeaDNA. We've got about 560hours as of today. So about 180/yr overall. I'd guess about 60% of that was trolling on one motor. I have twin Honda 40's and troll for an hour or two on one, then switch to the other. So overall time with al least one engine running is 560*.4 + 560*.6*2 = 896 hours.

Roger on the SeaDNA
 
Dan,

The first four years (91-94) we averaged 162.4 hrs per year. All cruising, no fishing. Our speed averaged 11 knots most years.
 
Bought Captain's Choice in Dec 2002, it had 240 hours on the Honda's at that time (it's a '94!). Has 300 on it now, so have put an average of only 30 a year on it since. Most of the 60 were on a trip down the Intercoastal this last fall.

As we get our place on the Potomac finished, hope to put lots more on it.
 
I put 206 hours on my big motor this year. Way more than that on the trolling motor.
I came across a simular thread on another website and found it interesting what other boaters are putting on their boats in a year. Take a look at http://boards.trailerboats.com/cgi-bin/trailerboats/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=001899 It appears to me that most C-dory owners put way more hours on their boats than most other brands.
I'm just guessing is has something to do with livability, economy and enjoyment. Makes one want to spend more time on the water.
 
This was our first season, we had 16 outings towing 2480 miles, making 553 NM, with 83 engine hours. Fun per engine hour exceeded 100%.
Mike (Levity)
 
Interesting web page!
[quote" It appears to me that most C-dory owners put way more hours on their boats than most other brands./quote]

Someone on that other pub noted that the other big factor is actual "boat time," not just "engine time" (altho' I know that's not what prompted Dan's first post in this thread). I suspect that if you factored that in, C-Dory boaters would come out even farther ahead. Some of our best moments this summer were at anchor, rather than underway. But it's all fun, and Levity's got that percentage about right!
 
Four years, last October, and 1900.2 hours, 16,969 nmiles, 4,052 gallons of gas, and 224 locks. So, average speed is 8.9 knots, fuel consumption is 4.2 gals/mi or 2.14 gals/hr. We generally cruise around 12-15 knots.
We cruise with twin Honda 40's. Sure agree with Mike on Levity - fun per engine hour !00%+
 
Do you have a log that records miles through the water? If not, what method, if any, do you use to keep track of miles through the water? If so, what is it and how is it mounted?

With our Raymarine C 80 we can record a track, turn it into a route and see the miles we traveled over the bottom.
 
Has worked for hundreds of years. Have used it myself for the last 37 years.

I thought C-Brats had to use something more complicated!
 
George, that seems cumbersome. Don't you have a menu page with a GPS tripmeter on it that records distances? Not sure about the C80 but Garmin has one, it's resettable for each trip and will record totals until you reset that. I would think there's one there somewhere...I usually transfer that info to a paper logbook after each significant trip, along with engine hours, weather observations, etc. On the Garmin, you can do trip planning too, if you have fuel consumption curve info, it'll keep track of things like that too, based on speed being traveled.

Looked for the manual on the website to check myself but, if it's there for the C80, it's well hidden..

We're headed for DownEast Maine this weekend, still got this snowbird thing backwards!!

Charlie
 
I'm going to be a new 22 cdory member..on order now from Cutter, for April.
I expect to put many more hours on this boat than previous boats. Current boat is a 40 ft. wood trawler style boat, Ford Lehman, 123 hp. and it takes a while to get her out and ready.

I'll be keeping the cdory in a slip just a half mile frommly house and anticipate lots of short runs, long trips, and just up the scores of creeks around the bay.

last year I put 127 hours on the boat. Would hope to go well over 250 this year on the cdory.

tom/terraplane
 
I was just rereading this post. so far three weekenda and two day trips for 65 hours in the first month of ownership. bill and el look out here i come.
 
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