Saving Old Seagulls

A gentleman called Les from Poole bought this one, woodman.

It wasn't me & it wasn't 40TPI.

Unlike your fuel of choice Neal it would contain no Gin, Ice or Lemon!

At £1.09 a litre for cheap petrol, Methanol has got to be a viable alternative!

There are 15 ON's & OP's plus 5 OJ's which are their forerunners, built under the Marston title, that the registry know about in the World (Sept 21 2009) but 3 or 4 seem to turn up a year, since we've been looking. Perhaps the combatitants might permit SD's to enter the fray, or indeed any strai...

So the intrepid ON speed freaks are going for a speed trial on the Thames before it freezes over. Because of the disparity between the available hulls, I would suggest changing hulls at half time, & the winner being the skipper with the greastest winning time margin. All that will be needed is a...

Did they have inflatable boats in the 1940's? 1 man with an SD could move a 16 foot clinker around Scarpa Flow a lot faster than 2 men rowing on a windy winters day & for a lot longer. Inshore fisher men & there must have been quite a few, might well have worked under the control of the Navy...

Why would you mend something that isn't broken?

You haven't checked the top main bearing yet, have you?

The Pilot & this was the last of them was a very nice little motor, very well designed, but more fragile than the Seagull equivalent.

Wood Man it looks like the last of the Seagull outboards to have used Birmabright aluminium alloy was probably the SN & SNP pre war motors, though only 1 has surfaced, so we can't be sure it wasn't just to use up the last of the Marston stockholding. Perhaps H-A could get one of his mates to che...

If the North West passage thaws next year H-A, what say you to putting some new rings in an SD & motoring over the top, if we leave in the next couple of weeks we could be there by July. If we head due North up to the pole & then left 5 or 6 degrees, it should be no problem, after the pole i...

I have a hand held infra red thermometer that I check main bearing temps when I first start testing my race motors, just to see if I'm over doing it on the main bearing loading front.

Your 75% right H-A, the tank I checked first has the tag, but the other 3 have no trace of one.

H-A we've seen what happens to a Seagull, when you start it before your sure it's fit to run!

SD's didn't have the later, wire cap retaining spring, the brass chain attaches to a small tag at the bottom of filler neck.

Hot crankcases are quite unusual in Seagulls, ( hot is almost too hot to touch) & is caused by the main bearings or big end running very tight, often caused by distortion in the crank or the crankcase. Both of these would require a full strip down if the motor is important to you, is there any e...

Beautiful Pics thanks!

Where are the insects & where's the pic of your fish haul?

Perhaps it reads FP 2552 C1 which would make it a March 1971 40+.