2 strokes

[Blueboatman]

And everyone and their granpappy in Florida seem to own a mobo of some sort!

Well, why wouldn't you when the weather is so good so much of the time?

Not condoning, but anyone who has plonked a 2stroke in a barrel and fired it up and then sampled the water after 5 minutes-yeeeuk!

Carl Hiaasen is yer man for anti development satire of Floridas Everglades, of the highest order.
As a staff writer for the Miami Tribune as well, one suspects that many of his characters started somewhere unprintably true

 

[Racecruiser]

Dylan - loved the Seagull video. Memories of the family in the dinghy, Dad pulling the cord and whipping us all round the ears as the tide carries us the wrong way with the engine failing to start. I see yours had some kind of plastic thing on the carb - our 40 Minus (I think) just had an open air intake.

Mind you I used to love pottering about in the dinghy with the Seagull - Yarmouth, East Head etc. Incomplete burn and tickling the carb til it flooded somehow wasn't important then although I wouldn't say that now.

The difference between my Triumph Bonneville (yes you had to tickle the carbs) and my fuel injected Triumph ST 955 was a revelation - similar progress in outboards but no British manufacturer left for them. Unlike bikes - and by the way the new generation Triumphs are magnificent. If I could just afford a boat and a bike ......

 

[tcm]

I'm glad you agree.

Standing by for full LS...

 

[VicS]

I see yours had some kind of plastic thing on the carb - our 40 Minus (I think) just had an open air intake

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It looks like a Silver Century model.
The carb is a 2 jet Amal carb which has a spray-proof air intake cowl incorporating the choke.
The 40 Minus has a Villiers carb. Storm cowls were available as accessories.

 

[Racecruiser]

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It looks like a Silver Century model.
The carb is a 2 jet Amal carb which has a spray-proof air intake cowl incorporating the choke.
The 40 Minus has a Villiers carb. Storm cowls were available as accessories.

Now that is seriously impressive knowledge. Before the Seagull Dad had a British Anzani two stroke which was particularly unreliable - I bet no-one has one of those?!

 

[VicS]

British Anzanis still appear from time to time.

One on ebay at present if you want one for old times sake.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/british-a...ineParts_SM&hash=item25687aad38#ht_542wt_1185

the Seagull fanatics sometimes get their hands on them.

I think the boat yard chucked one out recently ... I did not look closely enough to be sure though.

is it ?

 

[Blueboatman]

There has to be a joke there but it escapes me.

''Old seagulls never actually die but.....?''

? They just go and sulk in a corner..and await resurrection ?

 

[Sire]

British Anzanis still appear from time to time.

One on ebay at present if you want one for old times sake.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/british-a...ineParts_SM&hash=item25687aad38#ht_542wt_1185

the Seagull fanatics sometimes get their hands on them.

I think the boat yard chucked one out recently ... I did not look closely enough to be sure though.

is it ?

Wow! That ebay one is identical to the outboard we had for our Skipper 14. Identical, that is, apart from the colour; ours was black and silver IIRC.

 

[Racecruiser]

British Anzanis still appear from time to time.

One on ebay at present if you want one for old times sake.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/british-a...ineParts_SM&hash=item25687aad38#ht_542wt_1185

the Seagull fanatics sometimes get their hands on them.

I think the boat yard chucked one out recently ... I did not look closely enough to be sure though.

is it ?

I think it is - an Anzani second from right. Quite clever having the circular fuel tank around the flywheel but some may say a bit close to the hot bits!