In fact, a boat with normal hours (50-75 per year) will often time run better than a boat with low hours. Unless you are looking at a really high hour boat (2,000+ hours) there are typically very few drawbacks to the number of hours a boat has. There are a few things to consider when looking at boat hours. In fact, it’s just past getting broken in. Like the truck, a boat with 745 engine hours has many years of optimal running performance left. So if there was a used boat for sale with 745 engine hours, and it was routinely serviced, it would have had 9 oil changes. With inboard boats, it’s recommended to change the oil every 50 to 75 hours. That means this truck has had 9 oil changes. On a truck, it’s recommended to get an oil change every 3,000 miles. To directly compare to the boating world, we can use oil change periods. Here’s a picture of the hour meter on the truck. We have a shop truck with 28,000 miles on it, which is widely accepted as very new, and there are 745 hours on the engine. People tend to think 1,000 hours is too many, but what is too many? Let’s make a comparison with the automotive industry.
We often get used boats in on trade that have close to 1,000 hours on the engine. The most common question we get regarding used boats is something along these lines: “How many hours are too many hours on a boat?” or “How long will a boat engine last? 900 hours?” There’s a widespread misconception regarding engine hours on used boats. While that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can often lead to people overpaying (sometimes drastically) to get a boat that won’t perform any better or last longer than a boat with higher engine hours. Often times we see people looking for boats that are 10 years old with less than 200 engine hours. We get lots of questions involving engine hours, especially on used or demo boats.
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