700 hour boat questions...

[jpwhit]

I think it's a mistake to assume # of hours will equate to future reliability. That's simple not the case in my experience. I've owned many boats and also maintained many boats as part of ski clubs. The boats that run fairly regularly and maintained well always have less issues as they get older than boats with low hours and less regular maintenance.

I can understand that people want to gravitate to what appears to be an very easy to quantify metric like "hours". But the reality is it's just not that simple.

[MC25]

I think it's a mistake to assume # of hours will equate to future reliability. That's simple not the case in my experience. I've owned many boats and also maintained many boats as part of ski clubs. The boats that run fairly regularly and maintained well always have less issues as they get older than boats with low hours and less regular maintenance.

I can understand that people want to gravitate to what appears to be an very easy to quantify metric like "hours". But the reality is it's just not that simple.

While you may think it’s a mistake, it’s simply a fact of the market. 200 hour boats are worth more than 700 hour boats, given their condition is the same.

[tchur1]

^^^ Um, the OP was the one who uses his current boat 150hrs per year. The guy that bought the 700hr boat is not the OP.

Hit the nail on the head. We live in Tahoe with a shorter season so its pretty tough for us to use 150+ hours in a season. We will probably put between 50 and 75 hours on the boat per year.

We will have this boat for probably 5 more years so at this pace expect to trade it in or sell it with about 1000 hours. Im pretty OCD when it comes to caring for my stuff and maintaining things properly so Ill control everything I can to make sure we dont have issues down the line. Its a boat though so Im sure something breaks along the way.

We also bought it for less than the dealer was asking and love the boat, end of the day thats what was most important to us!

[tchur1]

While you may think it’s a mistake, it’s simply a fact of the market. 200 hour boats are worth more than 700 hour boats, given their condition is the same.

No doubt a 200 hour boat is worth more than a 700 hour boat, but we also didnt pay 200 hour boat prices to purchase this one. Most '18+ x stars with 250 or fewer hours are being sold right now for 150k+(minimum), we paid significantly less than that for this boat so yes it will be worth less in the future but we have paid much less to purchase.