Saving Old Seagulls

If you are looking for machines that were built very well for purpose, spanned the globe and had massive impact on 100s of millions of people and are still in use over 100 years after manufacture look to the Short Magazine Lee Enfield. Great british Engineering (tho lee was a yank) built by all the ...

Well fear not we sent a Canuck over to get things straightened out for ya. AS Mr. Carney said ‘I am going to where the challenge is greatest' that and where you'll pay 700,000 pounds a year to be able to blame it all on a colonial :lol: Life is short 3 squares and pocket change for a pint and the Mr...

John, thanks for the info, you guys obvioulsy know what your up to and I appreciate the chance to learn. Very smart boat looking forward to watching the rest of your build.

Just pull it apart and clean the cooling galleries.

Thanks for the update. Neat transom arrangement. Was wondering why she is built with her sides in two planks? Was that done cause you had the pieces or is there a reason for it? Will you just tape the seam in and out ? Also notice on the starboard side it looks like you brought the side flush to the...

Phil, do you see any of the Churchouse built Drascombes out east? The lugger, coaster etc would be perfect but all I found so far were UK and european refrences to them, they do not come cheap though. If this is still around next month I might go see how cheap he'd sell it for. He is at 12 bills now...

Yeah trumpet would be wise, I don't know for sure but I suspect they do something to the intake air that encourages a better combustion mix? Plus brass just looks dam fine!

Been pondering over a way to get a 'poor cousin' Orkney Longliner type boat. An idea that occurred to me (and I am sure it is bereft of problems) is that maybe a guy could find a shallow draft swing keel or dagger board 16-19 foot compact cruiser on the cheap (i.e one with rigging problems or missin...

Billy: It sure is a beautiful machine, I don't think you'll get tired of looking at it anytime soon. Be cool to get the original parts but the ones you are missing are the ones that make sense to be missing so it aint a big deal. Not like you are sporting a briggs gas tank and golf club tiller LOL. ...

Should I restore it? You have a piece of unaltered WWII history. Do you think they are going to make any more of it? Buffing away the original paint and patina aint so cool as leaving it. I have yet to come across an antique or collectible market where reproduction stickers and buffing wheels incre...

LOL, nope no problem with either, I am just retarded and got thinking 2.2 km per mile instead of the correct 1.6. :oops: My 40 plus gives 8 km/hr pushing 600 pounds at any throttle setting slightly above half. 8km/hr is about exactly 5 miles per hour. Your boat is alot nicer then mine though. Dam eu...

5mph with the feather wieght and 3 guys on board? Man I got some kind of problem with my 40 plus.

Charles, cool I am very pleased to know that Sheridan Marine is currently machining Century pistons in Great Britian. Hard not to get behind a company that would continue U.K operations when it surely would be more profitable to send some CAD files off to India/China. They really should consider put...

Charles, interesting stuff. Raises a question, who currently owns British Seagull and where do they manufacture spares? Or is the current stock NOS that was bought up along with the rights to post 1988 editions of manuals etc. You'd think they'd be even more successfull and more popular if we could ...

flywheel with bare hands Stelios, I recgonize both your brilliance and your creativity but I would not grab on to a flywheel and start turning it! Maybe the tip of one finger on the outside edge with the others in a fist but 5 spread out is a recipe for playing 6 string Jerry Garcia style, yeah you...