Saving Old Seagulls

Over the summer I built a 16ft canoe for the grandkids. Its extra wide about 4ft 2ins and I built it of 18mm x 3-4mm strip pine covered both sides with 300gms woven glass. The bottom line is it is very light for its size and is very strong. This next summer I have been toying with building another b...

To get a bit more room, what about a double decker with the lighter ones on a hoist system above the others. Just a thought.

Its a long argument but us old school were always told the maximum speed of a displacement hull was. ``the square of its hull length in the water (in feet) times the frictional factor of the hull`` hulls frictional factors vary but a good average is 1.4 or 1.5. If you want to go faster than this you...

The guys got loads of goodies in his `other items to sell`

Put some bricks on them speakers and up the volume. Another couple o beers, who cares......

I had. 102 as a back up for a Johnson 20 on a 16ft Bass type boat for inshore fishing. Once when the Johnson decided it didn't want to play the old seagull pushed me back no troubles.

It was a long time ago but if I remember right your s is for sapphire and will have LP for long player when you flip it over. The diamond came as a one sided needle and you could not flip it over, things may of changed over the years or maybe my memory might be letting me down. My DJ always gave the...

Again going from memory after being the running guy for a mobile disco some 40 years ago in Portsmouth UK, The sapphire was a sweeter sound when new but would fade after a short while. The diamond good quality `needles`are the ones to go for as once settled would last much longer and the average pun...

Going from memory from years and years ago. I think the ST 12 was a saphire and the ST 14 was a diamond. The ST 14 was the choice of disco`s

Theres some special `paint` for doing the inside of rusty petrol tanks. You know then its the original tank for that engine plus you know the bottom is not going to fall out of it if its treated right. Just a thought hope it helps.

I had a mower like your seagull many years ago and eventually put it down to someone putting grease on the contact points shaft. After removing and deep cleaning the points in petrol, and refitting with no lubrication it started and run a treat.

Never tried it but what about a long length of curtain rail with a stainless inner wire, but maybe I`m being daft.

If it can be easily unclamped what about turning it round so the prop and leg is in the boat

Now I know why all the old folk lay on the beach all day, someone pinched all the zimmer frames. Nice motors though.

Bottom End Stuffers. Were moulded aluminium `fingers` that are bolted onto the sides of the crank case so the fingers point up filling as much space as possible on the top of the flywheel and into the bottom of the piston when it is at BDC. The idea is to increase the crank case pressure when the pi...