if I look back at the hours on the first 24 years on #505 ... in which we sailed on and off a mooring 95% of the season and we mostly depended on running motor when batteries needed to be recharged for radio and later gps --- using maybe 1 tank of diesel a summer [24]
I wouldn't be surprised at low hours. We hear a lot of talk about 1-2 tanks of fuel a summer.
The boats were not factory equipped with motor hour meters so you have to guess when it was installed. but if it looks like the rest of the panel ... it may be near original ... some skippers are addicted to the oil change every x hours or so.
Of course the last 6 years I go through maybe 3 tanks of diesel a year in Naples getting to the Gulf. [18]
So I'm thinking I did 24+18 = 42 10-gal refills in 30 years.
or 420 gals X 2.5 hours a gal gives us 1050 hours.
but hey if you are doing 30 gal a year. that's 900 gal over 30 years and 2250 hours. which still isn't bad for an engine that a lot of people say is worth 10,000 hours if treated ok.
