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how many hours

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do you average yearly (or season) on your engines?
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I run in my 6 month season about 60 hours each engine. Mostly cruise locally to my harbor and a couple trips around 90 miles a year up and down lake Michigan's eastern shore.
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I don't log the engine hours any more but log the trip distances... 641 Nm this last season 6 May till 20 Sept, stopped a little earlier than normal.
2007 was 82 hrs
2008 was 67.6hrs
2009 est: 70hrs
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75 so far but I'm not done yet :) and you ?
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about 150 this year and still going
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average about 100 hours a year
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We average between 75 and 100 a year.
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I also average around 100 hours or so a year. This past year I logged just over 900 miles of boating bliss! About 750 of that was on my Trojan and the rest was on my fishing boat.
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Wes wrote:We average between 75 and 100 a year.

Wes I thought you did that many just at the end of aug.

My hours were up this year untill lately ( of course I started Jan 1 )
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alexander38 wrote:75 so far but I'm not done yet :) and you ?
....wasn't a great year for me. 37 hours
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phil and i logged just under 50 hrs this summer. not good considering i wanted to use her more but if i still own her next season, (or if i am still employed) hopefully we can log some more time.
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I can walk down the dock and most boats I see won't even have 5 hours put on them . I will guarantee I am in the top 5 of power boats being used ay my marina . and in the top 5 of all the boats if you do not count all the sail boats that head south every year. used to be the average boater put 100 a year on . bet its a lot less now . bet its closer to 25. Dock queens bring the numbers way down.
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Paul, I bet you're right. A majority of the boats on our dock only run far enought to pump out.
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1076 hours added this season.
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Breezy 1 wrote:1076 hours added this season.
And you get Money for it :D are you running diesels ?
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