Saving Old Seagulls

Hey, all! Many of you are sailors as well as Seagull owners. Some of you may know - and have probably participated in - the ongoing debate about the 'seaworthiness' of multihull sailboats, which mostly revolves around the difficulty of self-recovery in the event of a capsize. One idea to prevent thi...

Rex that's all very well, but when was the last time you attended a Seagull event in the South Island???? It's a 15 hour drive for me to get to Melbourne, which is a long way to go for a one day event. Brisbane is 7 hrs and Sydney 5 hrs. That's a minimum of $100 in fuel alone, plus accomm, plus expe...

Don't know, Rex. Have had zero interest in the idea, so probably not.

It appears to me that there is little to no interest in "events" per se in Oz - much the same as the UK.

Am wondering why I bother....

Well, despite the best of intentions, it now appears that there is not enough interest in the event to sustain it, so I have reluctantly decided that it's time to pull the pin and move on to other things. Although more than 20 people evinced an interest in participating in the event, when push came ...

Wow, that is very low! When I went down 2 years ago the rock ledge at Cambridge pool was almost completely under water and only a stopper wave showed where it was. And the boat ramp at Rangariri was at least under water by a foot or two. Reckon it'll be a 'prop spring' battle this year...!! lol Good...

LOL...too cute....

I'm thinking maybe he doesn't want to get left behind...??

Yeah, couldn't go past Poncho The Chilli Dog 'guarding' the Seagull.....he's either half asleep or 'blissed out'....too cute. :) Glad you liked the mag. It's a lot of work to produce, and about 20 people contributed to this issue in various ways. Had asked charlesuk to put a post up on "The Gul...

Further clarification after a recent phone conversation - it doesn't matter what year the ads are from - provided they contain a Robert E Groves sketch.... So they could be in immediate post-war mazazines as well, especailly Yachting and Boating or Yacht and Motor Boat or any of those such titles......

The web, alas, is wrong, Hugzy....it was actually 1869 to 1948, so he was 79 when he died....

...you can breathe easy for awhile longer..!!

Groves died in 1948, after which time David Cobb did the majority of Seagull's artworks.

So pre and during war drawings will be all Groves work but they are distinguished by his elaborate signature.

Mate, at GBP15.00 per copy I doubt I'll be getting too many of them!

In respnse to a qeestion, here are the type of ads I'm looking for.....

They all feature the signature "Robert E Groves", like these ones.

Need scans from actual ads of at least 300kb but preferably at least 1Mb in file sizein JPEG format or similar.

BUMP

Surely someone has at least one ad with a Robert E Groves sketch in it????

BUMP..!! Hey guys! I know *some* of you must have adverts from pre-war magazines....or pre-war copies of Yachting and Boating Monthly lying around... Pretty please with sugar on...??? It's for the Seagull magazine.....and only for that purpose, if that helps....?? Did deep, gents, its for a good cau...

G'day all I'm looking for some hi-resolution scans of early Seagull ads that feature the art of Robert E Groves for a forthcoming feature in the next issue of 'The Gull'. Images must be jpeg or tiff, greater than 300kb in file size. Email direct to ozseagullgroup@gmail.com PM me with any queries...q...