Seagulls Anonymous

[Hugz]

Odin grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can and Wisdom to know the difference.

Help, I've got another six!

AD 12879
LLS 904
WPCL 6541K7
FP 1485KK3
WSL 25NN4
WSL 43DD3


At $450AU approx 178 quid.. how could I say no!



An early 102 and Century in that lot which I'll keep. Might resurrect the others as best I can and or end up with lots of spares.

Is it ethical to take the clutched gearbox off the longshaft and put on shortshaft and stamp a C on the engine number?

I've got a matched pair of AD's now which would look rather spiffy on the back of my boat. Trouble is one is a two blade prop and the other a three... How do I find out which prop was the original? They are only a year or two apart.

I'm becoming a bit of a snob and beginning to feel that any motor post 1960 is rather common!

Hugo

[CatiGull]

Hello, my name is Stephen, and Im a Gullaholic.

Post 1960's are common? I have lots of posts on ebay assailing the rare British Seagull motor from the 1960s in counterpoint.....

[charlesp]

Gullaholic indeed!

You guys are beginning to talk as though there's something to be ashamed of here.

Messing about with these things is pure goodness, there is no crime involved. It keeps us off the streets, and away from socially undesirable alternative hobbies like shoplifting or sniffing glue or playing football.

They do no harm whatsoever to the environment, fluffy dolphins, whales or anything else, they are non-racist, non-denominational, non-ageist and only partly a complete mystery to females, so they're mostly non-sexist.

Moreover they are British. Younger and Colonial forum members may need to look that word up; once it was synonymous with greatness, the Schneider Trophy, Thin Red Line, the Centre of the Universe and all that.(Roughly the centre, that is; anyone knows the exact centre is in Yorkshire)

Anyway even the medical profession are keen on them - my FVP came from the local practice nurse. There are very few things, if you think about it, that are enjoyable and are not frowned upon by the National Health Service.

So less of the Gullaholic nonsense please. Be proud, and wear your British Seagull baseball cap at all times.

Yes, nurse, I know, time for the medication...

[mrdraddy]

Charles please stop it,i'm filling up! You forgot to mention roast beaf and yorkshire pudding,last night of the proms and a stiff upper lip!!

[Hugz]

So less of the Gullaholic nonsense please. Be proud, and wear your British Seagull baseball cap at all times.

Baseball cap!!!! Surely the decline of the empire. Tho I suppose a bowler with the Seagull insignia could look a little odd.

[charlesp]

You are of course right about the baseball cap. I personally think that the United States has to be encouraged occasionally, like a wayward child, and surely the baseball cap is fairly harmless.

I don't know how I forgot the roast beef.

Seriously, chaps, this Britishness is what it's all about. It's about Purdey sporting guns and LandRovers. The history of both those institutions is spookily similar to that of British Seagull...

[chris]

She who must be obeyed is an artist and has made the amazing statement that she thinks the old 102's are pretty.
She has also informed me that she will not get on a boat without a seagull as she finds them eccentric and rather amusing, that includes the people who owns them, She is also a goddang yank, so there is hope.
GOD BLESS SEAGULL'S

[Charles UK]

Buy a Yamaha, & go boating with company that brings their own VB.

[CatiGull]

Britain still waives the rules, surely.

[chris]

In australia yamahas are nicknamed disprins because the dissolve in water