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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | My Suzi lets me know how many hours are on it everytime I start it via the rpm gauge.
100 hours on an outboard is nothing. I do at least that in an average year. I am not using my motor for trolling at all either, just typical fishing useage throughout the course of a year.
I generally save my odometer info on my GPS through the course of the year. You would be shocked at your average speed on the water as well. My GPS is set to use a minimum speed of 5 mph before recording so it is all miles from my big motor, not my trolling motor. I will not average over 25 miles an hour for the course of a year. You put a whole bunch of hours on your motor running around structure at very low speeds. Assuming 40 miles an hour is probably quite high.
Just to reference, my boat is a Tuffy 1890 with a 200 Suzi, not exactly a slow machine, and I tend not to run at slow speeds unless necessary. I am not sure but I think I have around 20 hours on this motor (new in rig in September), and that is barely broken in. Oh yeah.....It's for sale too! 
Edited by nwild 12/5/2007 10:02 PM
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