Your Boat & Motor Pictures

[billyboy]

hey skyetoyman.......... nice boat! does it need the longshaft though? or would a standard one do?

[Todd]

Cahilp3 -

Nicely done - landing such a tolerant lady, that is.

Your Seagull is turning out to be a very nice example, too. But what the hell is fairy liquid?

Todd

[skyetoyman]

20 " transom . The boat has alot of freeboard. max hp is 10 but worked fine with my original century plus which sadly got badly bent when I caught the back end of the boat with a tree. I shouldn't have reversed the trailer with the outboard still on the boat It's a while back before ebay and my local marine shop couldn't repair it. I really miss starting with a clutch.
Just measured the longshaft -- 23" to cavitation plate . Is my outboard to deep ? I may start a new topic.
The boat is very similar to an Arran 14 but the Crescent has more bouyance built in

[rosbullterier]

As soon as your shiny motor hits the water, the aluminium will oxidise white and the brass will start to go green.
Purchase a trade size WD40 and keep everything liberally sprayed to retain your hard graft.
That's what WD40 is for - it doesn't hold a candle to Redex for penetrating.

- talking about penetration - ahh, Fairy Liquid. Yes you might know it over there as KY Jelly. Used extensively among our fey brethren . . .

[Charles uk]

Most people use fairy liqued for washing up, but it takes all sorts.

[timberman2004]

Hmmm
RBT...

Searching the attic for a suitable union flag , to keep the rebellious colonials at bay ...
At bay ?? .. bit of luck flick them all into Ebay what ?
only problem, No buyers ...
Bee Gees...Mel Gibson ..all British Y'see ...
Dame Edna ...a great Aussie icon ...a bloke in drag....yeah right !!!

I always believed 'Fairy Liquid' was a particularly nasty wine that poofs drank ...
you can buy it by the Plagon ( no not a typo... the Oz boys understand ) in Oorstralia...
they make quite a lot of it actually ...what with Sydney being Gay capital of the world ???

they flog it over here as Jacobs Creek ..god, the mind boggles

[Charles uk]

Neal how did you learn all these snippets about our DC brethren?

Methinks he doth protesteth too much.

[rosbullterier]

Chucky - you've deleted my post -

- put it back . . .

[Charles uk]

Oh no I have not

[Hugz]

Yep, Mardi Gras this Sat.

http://www.mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2010/index.cfm

I understand the Brighton Boys will be having their float as usual.

Sweeties.... Maybe we should enter a seagull float next year!

[Keith.P]

Did I see a seagull powered golf trolley, in one of the pictures?
I will have to have a go at my transom bracket and see if I can get it to shine like that.
A good wipe over with an oily rag is all it needs after use, the other half uses coconut oil, do you thing if I use coconut oil on the tank ,will take out some of the wrinkles?

[cahillp3]

yep. My fathers gold trolley was perfect for moving it about the place. Its not like he's been using it in all this bad weather!

I just soaked the bracket in caustic soda but what it really needed was a wire brush and a good scrub. Nothing else worked really.

Got O-rings down the local store. works perfect. ill post pics tomorrow some time. whats a good grease to use when lubricating moving parts on the motor?

Oh and some guy told me that Normal two storke oil for motorbikes would do on a seagull. i argued with him and he said his seagulls have been fine for the two years he's been running them. Im not sure but i said i would get EP 140 instead

[chris]

ep 140 for the gearbox
you can run an old seagull on almost any oil,
The 1st one I owned in the mid 70's was run on 30 weight engine oil as 2 stroke was virtually unheard of, I have used 15/50 engine oil as it was all I had, my motors get a lot of long distance runs, the longest being 12 hours only stopping to refuel and that was using 30 weight engine oil.
But against what I have just said the old seagulls love the modern 2 stroke oils as they run cleaner and foul less plugs.

[pistnbroke]

Interesting that this is a post for boat and motor pictures , very popular on other forums but here we have only 6 out of 27 posts with pictures ..WHY .....because you need to host your pictures elsewhere .....Time for a software upgrade me thinks so photos can be transfered form your own computer to the SOS computer direct ......

Now you all have a nice day ....

[skyetoyman]

First picture of boat , trailer and outboard together in 7 years
Note spacer behind transom to get engine vertical because of missing adjustment holes in bracket





I may even get out on the water soon. I am only 2 miles from the sea and a ramp