Saving Old Seagulls

This is a "braided" river and not a seagull option

Besides fishing , this area has great hiking and out door adventure pursuits as well as Alpine skiing in the winter . There is a network of Back packers , B&B's and lodges available. God, I sound like promotional tour guide . I'm very proud to show off where I live and I thought it might give an insight to those gull riders who have not been here , I hope you found it of interest . Happy New year to you all .

Yeap, very nice landscapes and about your vehicles I won't make a comment (art)!!!

Not sure what the translation meant about the vehicles Stelios . No matter .
My boat is glass over spindle moulded cedar , strong and light but not ideal for seagulls , aft is too narrow and not flat enough and the boat has way too much rocker .It goes okay though . Still undecided about the next boat , likely to be bigger and fit into the 20 foot class we have here .
one of my motors stopped after a promising test and it appears the bush had been allowed to slip up meaning the pinion gear didn't mesh well ~ munted I'm afraid .

How did that happen? Thrust washer removal maybe?






About the translation.. I just liked all your vehicles, car, boat, outboards

I don't think the bottom of the brass bush was being held , the bolt I was using was a tad short which I didn't realize and it had been running fine for ten minutes , It slipped up and was stripped in a matter of seconds , I sit holding along tiller extension well forward , by the time I moved arft to get to the throttle it was toast

I got a spark indicator and thought I'd show you guys what it looks like .
You have to have a long enough lead if you want to use it running other wise just plug it in the end of the lead with out a plug and pull the cord , very easy to see it light up if you have spark http://youtu.be/_NfZTptkkCg

As some of you may remember I'm interested in pull cord toggles and Huggy asked where my brass one was ?
Here it is ! Still yet to drill the cord hole but undoubtedly seagull and quite unique I'd imagine . Wouldn't be to keen to have it catch and rotate round and hit me though I've got to say .... hmmm??? Might give one to Charlie , you never know his luck

Mate.....you are a legend

Inspired by you mate

the genuine plastic above . The limited edition Bronze pull toggle . yes I know the rope is dirty

A few of us went and camped at lake Arapuni on the Wiakato river and , Tinker and I went the 20 kms to the Wiapapa dam one day and about 5 kms to the Arapuni dam the next .