How Many Hours Behind The Stick(s)?

[Knot 4 Me]

650 for me. I came late to the game though as I bought my first boat in 1998 at the ripe old age of 34. Anyone else care to take a guess of the hours you have behind the stick(s)?

[cigdaze]

Of the 4 boats I've owned, I'm guessing somewhere near 1000 hours.
17' Sea Ray ~ 300hrs
21' Baja Hammer ~ 250
Baja 25 Outlaw ~ 300
Cig Cafe ~ 200

[Jassman]

good thread

96 PQ Vyper 255
00 SS 38 TG 35 Junk
00 42 Sonic 160-165
03 37 A.T. 65
04 43 NorTech 73
07 43 NorTech 9
08 43 Nortech 90


Had a few jet boats, jet ski's and 3 CC's in between all that.

[Gladhe8er]

Probably about 250-275 in a 21 Checkmate, 22 Scarab and 28 AT.

[Geronimo36]

That's a tough question, I couldn't even begin to guess so I have no idea...

Worked on and drove various performance and other types of boats for a living on a daily basis from 95' - 00' and grew up from infancy in/around boating and have owned my own boats since 99'.

[Bobthebuilder]

4,700 hrs and counting since 1985. I figure about 3,200 offshore salt water and 1,500 fresh water. Hope to keep at it for many more years to come.
Bob

[89Mach1]

Wow, I have no idea. I'd say every weekend during the summer, and a handful of times during the week after work, say roughly 6 hours a week. And say about 20 weeks of boating around here, 120 hours a year maybe? Had boats for about 5 years now, so 600 hours I suppose.

[Tom A.]

Figuring on 100-150 hours a year since 1986: Approx 2500-3000 Hrs.

86-96: Boston Whalers / 22 Welcraft: 1000-1500 Hrs
90-94: Race boat (Nav/Driver) 150 Hrs
96-02: 22 Donzi: 700Hrs
03-07: 29 Kryptonite: 500 Hrs
Nov.07-now: 38 Donzi: 150 Hrs.

I got my first Whaler when I was 14 and quickly took over my father's Wellcraft as well!
Got a sea-Doo jet boat now but not counting those hours.

[t500hps]

Just had to add it up. About 650 hours total over 11 boats I've owned...only the last 2 were go-fasts totaling about 240 hours though. Unknown hours driving bass boats from childhood til 22 when I bought my own boat (cruiser).....certainly several hundred hours of seat time fishing tournaments, etc.

[Seafordguy]

Go Fast Boats:

Cafe Racer - ~100

Wellcraft V-20 and 13' Whaler - Countless....I was waterlogged during my summers.

[animalhouse]

That is a great question...
33 Sea Ray 400
36 Yellowfin 600
26 Regulator 250
32 Regulator 150
38 Fountain CC 180
37 Outerlimits 120
51 Outerlimits 150+
55 Viking 2700
various little boats too many to list. My 13 whaler logged 3 johnson 40's so that must be alot of hours.

[Magic Medicine]

Lets see this is a tough one, I have been on the water since I was 6 months old and I am 31 now. I began driving my dads boats at a very early age.

-10' Fiberglass dingy with oars, as long as my parents would let me on it starting at 4
-same boat with 4hp evinrude countless hours, parents joking argued who had to go for the ride with me
-1976 36' Trojan Tri cabin started driving and docking the boat at 8. Probably 100 hrs of operation
-11' Zodiac with 9.9 force OB countless hours went through 6 boats and paid for 2, broke the transom off 4 boats the were replace under warranty
- 19 Bayliner runabout probably 200 hrs over a few of my teenage years and early 20's
-1997 24' Checkmate Convincor 200 hours after 3 years of ownership the first boat I owned
-1999 28' Nordic Heat 80 hours in 1 summer of use
-1999 28' Checkmate ZT 280 140 in 2 summers of use
1999 32' Sunsation about 100 hrs of operation and I am on the second summer of ownership

[old377guy]

hmm....behind the wheel on grandpa's/dad's friends boat since '58-'59...."lots" of hours

[Ted]

Hmm started running plywood rowboats with a 3hp at age 8, 41 years later I have over a thousand officially logged for my OUPV and I guess really I have somewhere around 2000 hours.

[Davidmnc]

I have no way of knowing. Started boating VERY young. Started driving by my self at 8 or 10, and with out adults on the boat at about 12. I have owned six or seven boats since then and a hand full of PWCs. I am 35, so there is just no telling.

[OldSchool]

1985-87 Mitchell 15' bowrider w/ Merc 115
1987-99 Sutphen 18' w/ Mopar 340
2000-02 Formula 223 w/Merc hp450
2002-05 Cigarette 31' Bullet w/ twin 625's
2005-09 Cigarette TopGun w/800's
2002-09 Boston Whaler 13' w/abig Johnson

24 years with an average of 80/year 1920 hours. There were many years in the 80's and early 90's that I did well over 100 hours per season. The past few years, this crazy thing called a career is getting in the way!!

[Smarty]

Same deal as many of you guys, I was out on the water at age six/seven without supervision, in a aluminum boat with a 5.5 Evinrude, then the 13' Whaler after that. Still as a kid I would get top drive the 16' & 18' Donzi, 20' Cigarette, and as a young adult the 24' Pantera, and the 27' Magnum. On my own, another 18' Donzi, lots of hours, two summers, every chance I could in Avalon, NJ in the late 1980's. I have less than 100 hours of actual seat time, driving/throttling the 34' Phantom. All told, thousands of hours total boating time. I am age 44, and have been on the water before I can remember. Pictures of the early days, 1965 and later, and the Phantom as of last weekend.

I am the little guy in the Donzi picture, probably taken in 1969. The hot-rod tunnel boat was taken in 1968.

[Sean Stinson]

Wow that's a great question??? I have never ever thought of it.....literally thousands if you go all the way back to when I started boating at the age of 10 and thats literally running the boat myself at that age!!!

We used to fish and waterski everyday when it was not too cold or raining!!!!! Started with go fast stuff when I was 14 with a glasspar with an inline 6 merc 150 way overpowered but fun then Hydrostream and went up the ladder from there!!!!!!

[Ratickle]

take a guess of the hours you have behind the stick(s)?

Never enough......

[TIKI]

I didn't grow up boating and didn't own my own till I was about 30 yrs old. 36 now; so I'm around 400 hours.