new comer
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:19 pm
Hello to all, I just wanted to introduce myself before harrassing you with my questions and boring you with my seagulls problems.
I'm French, I live in Saint Germain en Laye (west of Paris) and caught the Seagullite recently.
It had incubated during 10 years as it was in 2011 that I bought my first Seagull second hand from "le bon coin" (a kind of French ebay) but when I received the package at home, I stored it in my sailing club engine room and forgot all about it.
It's only in May 2021 that I picked it up, opened the carton (still wet from the 2018 Seine floods) and started playing with it.
It's a featherweight, serial F2368E9, from May 1969, that was fitted with a Siba recoil starter (that I removed). I cleaned it, changed a few gaskets and the spark plug and I kid you not, it started at the second pull to clean my rubbish bin... This video proves it, I didn't even know how to wrap the cord correctly.
I then managed to fit it on my boat and I performed a 4 km odyssey on the Seine River before I ran out of gas (I had barely a litre in the tank).
Maybe my boat is too heavy, and its transom too high, so after the trip, I thought that one horsepower was not enough and that the shaft was too short.
So on "Le Bon coin" again I bought in June two seagull century (because the guy did not want to sell them separately) and now I'm trying to make at least one working Century out of them two. Maybe two outboards if possible. So expect to see more posts from me in the Help section as they are in much worse condition than the featherweight...
I'm French, I live in Saint Germain en Laye (west of Paris) and caught the Seagullite recently.
It had incubated during 10 years as it was in 2011 that I bought my first Seagull second hand from "le bon coin" (a kind of French ebay) but when I received the package at home, I stored it in my sailing club engine room and forgot all about it.
It's only in May 2021 that I picked it up, opened the carton (still wet from the 2018 Seine floods) and started playing with it.
It's a featherweight, serial F2368E9, from May 1969, that was fitted with a Siba recoil starter (that I removed). I cleaned it, changed a few gaskets and the spark plug and I kid you not, it started at the second pull to clean my rubbish bin... This video proves it, I didn't even know how to wrap the cord correctly.
I then managed to fit it on my boat and I performed a 4 km odyssey on the Seine River before I ran out of gas (I had barely a litre in the tank).
Maybe my boat is too heavy, and its transom too high, so after the trip, I thought that one horsepower was not enough and that the shaft was too short.
So on "Le Bon coin" again I bought in June two seagull century (because the guy did not want to sell them separately) and now I'm trying to make at least one working Century out of them two. Maybe two outboards if possible. So expect to see more posts from me in the Help section as they are in much worse condition than the featherweight...