Having restored several boats over the years, and not wanting to do another (just yet) I thought I would start a looking for a smaller project to keep me busy over the coming months. Had always wanted to do an older outboard so the search began. After several months I stumbled across a 1954? British Anzani Pilot on eBay Australia. To the best of my knowledge there's not too many of these in Aus, and with rarity adding another level of interest, I decided I had to have it.
The elderly gentleman who owned it (now in his mid eighties) was the original owner. He has it fitted to a 17 foot bondwood boat and used as a trolling motor on Lake Eildon, a fresh water lake in Victoria well known for its stocks of brown and rainbow trout. It has never seen salt water and has been in storage for the last 35 years.
Although I didn't see it running, I did a few basic checks on collection and all seemed to be in pretty good order.
From the limited research I've done, it seems these things were produced in a bunch of different color combinations. For this one however, I thought a highly polished leg, trunk and transom assembly and painted powerhead and fuel tank is the way to go.
Don't have a proper drawing package like adobe illustrator on my pc, so persisted with microsoft powerpoint and after a couple of hours mucking around, managed the following. Everything is hand (mouse) drawn including the lettering, so it's not quite where I want it yet, but getting there.
I set both on a small angle to gives the perception of movement, and put them on a gloss background 'cause that's probably going to be the finish color of the tank.
As stated, not 100% yet but if I wanted to I could export the file and have them printed up locally.
