'Very lightly used'

[rushers]

\'Very lightly used\'

Would you consider a boat that had 6500 miles on the log, 580 hours on the engine, was three seasons old, as being fairly described as 'very lightly used' (Brokers description.) /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif What would you consider as a reasonable average.

 

[Talbot]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

IIRC the average use for mobos on the south coast is abt 70 hrs/year.

 

[Evadne]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

I'd have said that a lightly used, privately owned sailing boat would have been out for half a dozen weekends plus a fortnight's holiday per year, say 20-100 hours of motoring and between 200 and 1000 miles per year.
So I'd suspect they are talking about a lightly used, ex-charter boat.

 

[Aardee]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

Seems OK if you do the maths. That's only 2 trips per month @ 8 hrs per trip.

Sometimes lack of use can be as harmful to a boat as too much use.

Just a thought...If all it did was day trips, the brokers description of "very lightly used" could apply to the accommodation.

EDIT: What sort of boat is it?????

 

[sonic]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

3 years old and with 807 miles on log and 308 engine hours now thats what I call lightly used

 

[SvenglishTommy]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

200 engine hours and 2000 miles would be quite a heavy seaon for me.

 

[TheBoatman]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

Why not look at it this way!

The two main components of a boat are the hull and the engine.

If the hull is grp then don't talk about miles but about years of service - in this case 3 years out of what! 35 maybe 50 years service life.

The engine - probably a diesel - so 580 hours out of a service life of 10,000 hours.

I'm not good at maths and I'm sure someone here will put me right, if I'm wrong, but as I see it the boat has approx. 6% used on both the engine and the hull or to put it another way there's still 94% useful service life left in both engine and hull!

Or put another way, you could expect the hull/engine to give up around 2040?

Peter.

 

[TigaWave]

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Not really...
Mine was lightly used 11 years old 4300Nm and 513 engine hours. And in that time had been moved from Scotland west coast to Lymington.

I would have said that was above average going by how many boats never move....but thats just statistics.

Maybe the owner and friends were all below 10 stone?

 

[chrisc]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

sounds light to me ,unless it is a motor boat ,they hardly ever move.it only equals about 2 months a year .

 

[Lakesailor]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

Well it must be a sail boat or it's been doing 11 knots all the time, every time it's been out.
Does that 6500 miles include a lot of bashing against heavy seas or gentle coastal sunshine cruising? Did he do an Atlantic crossing or stay within a few miles of home port.
I would have thought 2000 miles a year every year was pretty intensive use as others have said. Lots of boats sit on pontoons most of their life and potter, with a cruise once or twice a year.
But how it's been sailed may be as wearing as where it's been sailed. Knocks and strains from a ham-fisted skipper may be more damaging than the stress from a hard sail with a sensitive yachtsman.

A good root around and a surveyors report are needed.

 

[wooslehunter]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

Hi Rushers,

Welcome to the forum. Depends on what you mean by lightly used!

IMO, a lightly used non-charter boat would do far less than this. But, this could be a charter boat so it does sound lightly used. I'd guess a charter boat could easily do more than that in 3 years.

What really matters is the condition. A 3 year old non-charter boat should be absolutely immaculate. If this is what you're after and this one isn't immaculate, then walk away and find one that is. If this one is not a charter boat, you could always argue that it isn't lightly used and try to get the price down. If on the other hand it is a charter boat, then use that to get the price down.

 

[Koeketiene]

Re: \'Very lightly used\'

Average: 2500NM per year on the log
Average engine hours: +/- 100 per year