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From: Faure, Marin (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 12:58:12 EDT
> Fast Fred writes:
>>>My perception of how "trawlers" are actually
Used is open to correction, but 45 years of observation still sez ,
Jewelry , for show , not GO!>>
> C. Marin replies:
>>This may be true in the Carribean. But try the
> Pacific Northwest. We boat all year....
Larry Z wrote:
> But in the Northeast, Fast Fred may be more correct than most of us
like to admit. .... The typical trawler accumulates only about 100
main engine hours per year, according to the marina service manager.
I'm not sure one can always use a yearly hour total to determine the
use a boat gets. We put perhaps 100 to 125 hours a year on our boat.
But we use it year round, going out at least two or three weekends a
month (some of which are three-day weekends). Most of our runs are
not very long. For instance, a relatively remote marine park island we
go to a lot is only a two to two-and-a-half hour run for us one way.
So while we're out on the boat all weekend or sometimes longer, we're
often only
putting four to five hours on the engines. When the weather is too
bad to go out, we'll drive the 100 miles up to the boat anyway on the
weekend and stay on it, much as some people use a mountain or beach
cabin. On those occasions, we're not running the engines at all,
but the boat is certainly getting used.
So "being used" does not have to mean "being run." If it does,
then I suppose we don't use our boat all that much if 100 hours a year
is
considered low usage. But the fact that in the five years we've
owned the boat there have been only ten or so weekends when we haven't
gone up to it (not counting times we've been on vacation overseas or
I've
been out of town on business), would tend to indicate that we use a boat
more than a lot of people, even some who may put more hours on their
engines in a year than we do.
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C. Marin Faure
36' Grand Banks "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington
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