Low hours = it's been sitting. Sitting in storage does more damage than being used weekly.

If you were to sell me two identical boats. Take for example a 2005 268 Vista. One with 50 hours always in storage it's whole life. The other with 600 hours with a full service history used almost every weekend.

I would buy the 600hr boat. No questions asked. You know it runs and works perfect. The other boat? Who knows. Very low hour boats are generally always abused. Taken out once a month on last year's oil and usually doing laps at WOT. No thanks.

Congrats on the new to you boat!!

37 hours on a 6 year old boat? It's going to have a ton of issues. Get ready for basically everything breaking in the next few hours of use. Letting a boat sit unused for 6 years will have more damage/issues that a 6 year old boat with 500 hours.

Well the thing that screams neglect is when he said he follows " regular maintenance". There is no such thing as regular maintenance on a boat used only 15 hours a year.

Less than 10 hours a year seems awfully low. Seems you didn't follow mantra.

I'm only with low hours on a 2-stroke.