How many hours on your Formula?
 

Let's here it, how much do you use your Formula? How how has she held up?

There are quite a few "very low hour" boats for sale, from all kinds of manufactuers, some almost ten years old, kinda odd if you ask me. We use our boat, but we do all those little things like keep it very clean, have the drives removed every year and inspected, etc., etc.! I have 285 hours, she is a 2006, and still seems like new. The Formulas really age well, no fading/cracking, etc. 496HO engines don't miss a beat ever. Feels like she is almost good as new still.

A couple we run into on the lake occasionally have Carver with over 2,000 hours, original 454 engines still running like a top, hull still solid, etc. They have taken many trips. You can run boats, its OK!

425 hrs on my 382 and she is in mint condition but of course I am more annul than most and I don't spare any expense when it comes to maintenance or repair. Just replaced my original Bravo 1's with new X drives.

So Double Trouble, tell me how your SS performs with the 496 HO's. I am in the market looking for a 40 SS and was thinking the 40 would be underpowered with 496's.


Thanks,
JB

700 on a 1995 with an engine refresh at 300 -- I'm due for another.

The 400 SS has to be one of the most versatile boats around. If you like to go fast, look for one with racing engines. If you put on a ton of hours and travel large distances, go for the diesels.

The 496HO's are a solid all around and proven engine. She likes to run around 37-42 mph, no matter if you have full fuel, 10 people, or whatever. (Though no hard top on mine which saves 1,000 lbs). Top speed is 50 mph.

My 400 SS is listed here in the classifieds, and on EBay. Plus I have a dealer willing to take it in trade. We are moving to a bigger and slower express cruiser of some sort sometime soon.

What kind of engine(s) do you have?

803 on my 87 thats only 32.12 hrs a year:eekdrop:

Got mine in November last year, have not used it yet except to consume time and money. It has been flawless at that though!

692 hours on my 1986. This is it's 27th summer but it has zero hours this year and I do not think it had any last year. That is under 28 hours a year!

I remember looking at an 87 that sold before I got my 272. I think it had like 200 hours on it. It was less than 10 hours a year? How the heck does that happen?

Brian

I'm up to 247, bought her mem day with 213 hours, so right around 35 hours already..... 502/bravo's

I have a friend not on her with a 89 272 454/bravo's almost 1300 hours nothing touched, knock on wood for him...

leave em alone and they'll run forever......................

2000 382 with Volvo/Innovation 600's. 660 hours on the hull, 560 hours on each engine, with new valve springs at 400 engine hours. 12 seasons @ 55 hours each. Best purchase we ever made.

1005 on my '83 F-20. Valve covers have never been off of the old 260 merc.

85 and counting. Previous owner clocked an average of 4.6 hours a season but that's about to change.

748 on our 350 mags and outside of an oil pump in the starboard motor at 400 hours, they have never been apart and still run like raped apes!.

Prventative maintenance and oil and filter changes every 25 hours is the key to our success!

boat is a 2002.

lotta hours on a 02 good for you!

44 hours, now. Bought with 27 hours last September. 2008 sold new in June 2010.

Thanks man. No sense in owning it if you arent going to use it!

damn straight!!

960 on my old 89 272, that a buddy now has, hull is mint but the rest has been bastardized at least once!

340

320 on my 2006 with 525"s

runs great hoping for another 300

Ran my '93 271 for 17 years and 655 hours. Still ran strong and looked great when I sold it in 2010. Changed oil and drive fluid religiously and the only thing that ever failed was a front seal on the motor. My '08 292 has 90 hours with no issues.

280

675 on my 88 242 LS...........doubt she will be past 685 before the season is over

260 on my 97 FASTech, bought it at 197 in July 2010, blew and then had engine rebuilt at 219 in May 2011, along with new/used heads. Reman Bravo X upper at 230 hrs.

360 on my 92 303 SR-1

930 hours new engine at 640 hours 87 242ls

1033 on the 311, 736 on the 357

1238 hours, 1986 206.

The hours most seem to run per season based on what has been reported is somewhere between 30 to 50 hrs per season which has always been the norm. Of course you have some on the extreme that do more and the opposite that do few per season.

I would be on my boat every weekend if the time would allow but like so many others I have family obligationsand and also those wash out weekends that keep me away from my passion . So I fall right in the middle of the average hrs per season.