I’ve been looking at getting a new boat and outboard. I see that dealers will often times list how many hours are on there used motors. The question is.. how many hours is too many? What is a typical amount of hours a fishing fanatic will put on there outboard in one year?
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I’ve been looking at getting a new boat and outboard. I see that dealers will often times list how many hours are on there used motors. The question is.. how many hours is too many? What is a typical amount of hours a fishing fanatic will put on there outboard in one year?
That’s a tough question. I fish a lot and I put 134 hours on the motor last year. Makes me wonder how many hours I had all together in the boat.
Here is something I found last year on the web when I was looking at a getting a motor
meter hours on a big motor
Average weekender about 30 to 60 hrs a year.
A go getter does about 100 hrs a year.
Tournament boat 150 to 300 hrs a year.
hope this HELPS 
I was looking at motors a couple years ago and came across one for a really good price. Turns out it had 4000 hours on it and it was only 4 years old. At first I could hardly beleive it but he sent a print out from the computer scan at the dealer and that was how many hours it had logged. It must have been a test motor or something but I decided to pass on it.
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I was looking at motors a couple years ago and came across one for a really good price. Turns out it had 4000 hours on it and it was only 4 years old. At first I could hardly beleive it but he sent a print out from the computer scan at the dealer and that was how many hours it had logged. It must have been a test motor or something but I decided to pass on it.
I’d think passing on it was a good choice, be interesting in what the motor was used for though.
Al
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I was looking at motors a couple years ago and came across one for a really good price. Turns out it had 4000 hours on it and it was only 4 years old. At first I could hardly beleive it but he sent a print out from the computer scan at the dealer and that was how many hours it had logged. It must have been a test motor or something but I decided to pass on it.
I would have passed 2
Man that is a lot of hours in that short of time for an outboard motor 
farm tractors do not get that kind of use in a year
NICE TO SEE that U can put that many hours on though 
Buying used is always a gamble. Naturally, you hope to find a low hour engine that had the proper break-in procedures followed. Regardless, I have always done a compression test on the cylinders. Its easy to find the range on line in the specs for any engine. Tester is relatively inexpensive, or take it somewhere and spend a couple bucks to get done. Inspect all the gaskets on the head for signs of leaking. Usually white crusty looking streaks. That’s generally a sign of over-heating. Ask very specific questions on the maintenance schedule and what repairs have been done. Low compression and over-heating would spook me away from a power head. I’ve got an older Yammy 150, and proud to know I have more hours on it than I could count. Still purrs smooth at idle and runs with gusto.
Can any outboard have the hours of use uploaded? I’m assuming we are talking about post 2000 era, and probably not every make and model. All around go info to know while out shopping.
it all depends on where in the country you are buying from. alot of people will travel along aways for a boat. obvousily a boat from the southern states will have more use than a northern state where it spends 6 months in a garage. ive always heard a hundred hrs a year or so. i spend ALOT of time in my boat fishing 3-6 times a week. ive only put 200 hours on my boat in 3 years. i pretty much put the trolling motor down and fish, instead of driving all over
I spoke with a dealer today about some options for my new rig.
He informed me that the average weekend warrior will put on about 75 hours/year.
An avid fisherman will do about 100 hours per hear.
Tourney guys will do more obviously. Depends on where they fish as well. If they are running up and down the great lakes, obviously they’ll have more hours than guys fishing small lakes.
remember though all hour’s are not created equal what% at full throttle,half throttle and idle
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remember though all hour’s are not created equal what% at full throttle,half throttle and idle
Looks at a couple adds and looking at my printout. I’d think most are like what I’m seeing. 80% of the hours are at or near idle speeds.
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