HOW MANY HOURS A YEAR-MONTH-DAY DO YOU PUT ON YOUR MOTORS

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Byrdman

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Had to give this posting it's own spot on our C-Brat site. Many of you have read the link of late, Great Loop about GYPSY in the near future setting out for the loop trip. Just take a look at their...local just around the house hours they have enjoyed...

These are motor hours... not total use hours...just when the motor is running.

1584 hours Mike & B have put on GYPSY in about 47 user months....or, an AVERAGE.... of 33.7+ hours a month. Now, that is enjoying your boat!!!!

So now part of me wants to round it up and say that is 4 years, or 1460 days, minus about 30 for the 47 months.... = about 1430 days... or, an average of over 1.1 hours.....A DAY!!!!

Now, ya gotta realise... Mike has owned his own business during these years...and worked about 60 hours a week. So...can ya see him & B getting home, not even going into the house....cranking up GYPSY...and off into the evening... many, many, many times.

Go Brother Go!!!

Byrdman
 
I though we used our boat a lot around Southwest Florida . We have 530 hours on a f-115 motor (2006) I guess I have to start using it a lot more . WE have put on about 240 hours in about 19months works out to about 150 hrs a yr.
 
Just over 1,000 hours in 3 years and 3.5 months... averages out to about 300 hours per year. I think it's good for 'em to use 'em. :wink:

Best wishes,
Jim
 
4 years and 165 hours on the c-dory. ok, for 3 of those years i actually had 2 boats, but regardless, still haven't put many hours aboard. i'm sure if my boat was docked behind my house the hour meter would be spinning. hopefully within a year that will be exactly the case.
pat
ps: twin 40hp hondas with 315 hours, just about worn out.
 
starcrafttom":3eznhuk0 said:
We are a little off this year but i have 1000 hours since feb 06 .
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wow, that's some serious hours!

For us two seasons for a total of 10 months = about 385 hours on the meter; that doesn’t including the 300 hours I put on the meter last winter by leaving the key and battery switch on.
Log says we’ve spent 76 days on the water, 57 nights on the hook…getting my moneys worth.
 
22 hours in 2 months of possession... more than the last owner put on it in 4.5 years, and we promise to build on that number this weekend :idea:
 
We have owned our boat 3 years this month and have alittle over 190 hours on the main motor, but I'll bet I have at least 1300 hours on my kicker. And that is a pretty conservetive guess.
 
Wow, I thought we had a lot of hours -204- cruising from New York to Apalachicola, but we aren't even close to you guys!
Eric
 
fisherman will always have higher hours. i have spent up to 14 hours ONE DAY fishing and running on the main. I like to run the boat all day even if Iam not fishing. I only anchor up to eat and sleep. some times we even eat while cruising at a slow speed between ports. I dont like to sit still to much. I have not even started the boat since the first week of september this year. most years i fish sept and nov alot. just no time right now.
 
This is pretty cool.
Starcrafttom: Now...just which year have you not "been off?" :mrgreen:
Tbrady: Come on down back home Tom... warm, fresh water is waiting.
Eric: Thanks for your hours 204- cruising from New York to Apalachicola. That is about a 30 day trip....if you travel every day for about 7 hours. ......and now my little numbers mind is really starting to go crazy..... :xnaughty :tea :smilep :disgust

How many gallons
How many days of rest or just hanging out
How many nights at anchor
How many nights at a marina
How many knots average speed
...how many how many's .... you get the idea.

OK, some of us are sicker than others...

Byrdman
 
Don't have the log in front of me right now, but we are pretty low in hours compared to many. I believe it was 82 hours this year, with 26 nights on board. Most of those are State Park nights, just over half a dozen are marinas, (all but one of those are CBGT's.) We are at 400 hours on the twin 40's and have had SleepyC 4 seasons, (basically from March through October).

Not nearly enough hours, days or nights on board :cry but every minute there is worth it :rainbow :photo

Wonder if anyone is using "Access" for their data base or log info, and how they like it?

Harvey
SleepyC
 
3914 hours in 12 summers on New Moon, 2237 of these in the last 5.

1350 hours in 7 summers on Cindy Sea.

The Inside Passage is too hard to resist...
 
I re-engined in March and have put 84 hours on it since, so that is a little over 10 hours a month run time. I have spent a lot more of that on the boat underway drift fishing, anchored enjoying the view, and have spent 5 nights on it. Now that I see the numbers, I need to get underway this weekend, gotta get my money's worth. :wink:
 
This thread points out one of the great attrtibutes of these boats, they get used. I'm a failure as a C-Dory owner though, we only have but a handfull of hours on our boat the last few years
 
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