"mijoy" wrote in message
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If you are insinuating that 900 hours is a lot, you must be one of those
50
hours a year people.

Nope. I put 200+ hours on each of two different boats each year. That's
about 400 hours of boating each year. 900 hours is lower than what one
would hope to expect, but it is still a lot of hours. Most guides down here
run 180-200 charters/year. If their motors run 6-8 hours each trip, then
they're putting on 1000-1500 hours per year...which is why most of them
trade motors every one to one and a half years.




To compare it to your car example:
at 50 miles an hour, it would take 2000 hours to travel 100,000 miles.
Most
people would think that they should gt 100,000 miles out of a car before
major engine repairs.

My Yamahas, using the above analogy, is at about 48,000 miles.


You can't compare the two that way. Outboards run in a sal****er
environment, most often running at 75% or more of their redline.