Saving Old Seagulls

I was wondering as to how many people actually use their seagull on a regular basis in the water on the back of a boat

My Model 90 lives on the back of my boat permanently. There's a Kingfisher standing by waiting for the 90 to have its annual fettle, and this year I will run an SD briefly as I have been interested in trying to get a crude measure of performance.

My Featherweight is what pushes my tender back and forth to the mooring.

I do also have a 40+ which I have not used for quite some time although it was bought to use with my Mirror dinghy, not as decoration.

Currently I have 7 motors 4 sliver centuries and 3 102's , a couple are for sale , the others get run at least once a month and the flavour of the week is used in the races or exploration runs I attend and they can be 40 kms or more .

Chris you asked this question just to make me look stupid, it would be a good year when I run a Seagull for 10+ hours.

I don't know how many I own as I ran out of fingers & toes before I got halfway, all my efforts seem to be spent in making bits for racing & very early motors, what with that & spending the rest of my free time building race Seagulls, I'm living in fear of the men in white coats taking me away sometime very soon, will you write & send me some new crayons, my birthday is in July?

I use mine as much as possible, my Century race engine regularly wins Lerryn, and The Round Hayling race. plus the 3 or 4 other engines that are used by others in the races.

The most used are EFI 40-, light weight and in my opinion the best engine Seagull made, until you try a Mariner 3.3 .

The problem is that when you have too many engines and boats, they do get left in the shed, as you can only use one at a time.

The old stuff is nice on a sunny day, but then it might not start, have been told off by lock keepers for using locks in the dark due to a temperamental SD.

What do you do ? keep buying them, get them going then stick them in the shed, only one more .
There is only so much free time in this busy world that you have to play with Seagulls, or other old outboards.

I use and have fun with mine, I do not just run them in a dustbin, and regularly even take them on holiday with me.

Keep buying they are cheap fun.

I do keep posting possible events, but we have few takers, reminds me must get Charles some more crayons, he keeps eating the blue ones.

H-A

I now have charles on the calender reminder for birthday crayons. A couple of mine don't get much use and 2 of them I haven't used at all and one which I have had for a year I haven't even tried starting, the main ones I use is a late model 40+ or a century, depending on what I am doing

I use mine on sunny summer Sundays on the local river (Great Ouse), so essentially early May - end of September - engines are Kingfisher, Curlew, 102 and a 170 (fast when it runs). U use to use two or three different ones in a day, but old age means I tend to only want to hump one on and off a transom per day now!

My 40+ is the only o/b I own, sadly I don't use it as much as I would like or it deserves.....stuff it! Tomorrow I'm taking it out for a spin!

..still struggling to comprehend H-A's concept of 'too many' boats and engines...

Can anyone help?

A cold winter's morning in the marina in Poole Harbour. You can see ice on the calm water in the background. I took this photo because of the half-melted frost. A couple of days later the marina was frozen over with a thin layer of ice. I had fun firing up this motor, it sent exhaust gas bubbles under the ice - sadly I can't locate the video.