A "2" stroke of luck

Captain Coochie

Captain Coochie

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I'm not sure if you all saw my post in the lounge about selling the run about but after cleaning her i have a new love for her :rolleyes:
Anyway i needed the pin striping on the deck doing and a few sign writers came and looked and said they didnt want to risk spoiling the boat by getting it wrong ( fair enough ) So ive been quoted £170 to get it done as a stick on thingy by cnc .
Anyway although i have two outboards for it i have been keeping my eyes open for a 1960's seagull and guess what . Im just off out to pick one up just down the road from me . Condition and HP unknown but fingers crossed !!!!!
 
Cuchilo said:
I'm not sure if you all saw my post in the lounge about selling the run about but after cleaning her i have a new love for her :rolleyes:
Anyway i needed the pin striping on the deck doing and a few sign writers came and looked and said they didnt want to risk spoiling the boat by getting it wrong ( fair enough ) So ive been quoted £170 to get it done as a stick on thingy by cnc .
Anyway although i have two outboards for it i have been keeping my eyes open for a 1960's seagull and guess what . Im just off out to pick one up just down the road from me . Condition and HP unknown but fingers crossed !!!!!
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Is it one they found during the draw off ...:D
 
Cuchilo said:
I'm not sure if you all saw my post in the lounge about selling the run about but after cleaning her i have a new love for her :rolleyes:
Anyway i needed the pin striping on the deck doing and a few sign writers came and looked and said they didnt want to risk spoiling the boat by getting it wrong ( fair enough ) So ive been quoted £170 to get it done as a stick on thingy by cnc .
Anyway although i have two outboards for it i have been keeping my eyes open for a 1960's seagull and guess what . Im just off out to pick one up just down the road from me . Condition and HP unknown but fingers crossed !!!!!
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Standing next to seagull outside barmy a we speak is this the one ?
 
Here it is ......

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Worth messing about with or not ? :D
 
terrible complicated things. Definitely throw it away in my direction. You will be wasting all your wood-manipulating talents even trying to take it to pieces...
 
Nah, I'll take it on, fettle it, and return it in exchange for a herb drying cabinet :)

Or a good cash/beer offer.
 
Don't listen to any of them.

Seagulls are marvellous.
Nobody wants to pinch them, if you are sensible with them they go on for ever.
Don't know much about the later models - Kingfisher; guess you could strip the silly bits off and return it to being a "proper" 'Gull.

Have a look over at Saving old Seagulls.
Inexpensive parts available.

Look at it as if it were an old piece of woodworking machinery.

Don't know if it's the right engine for your lovely runabout, Stuart Turner would be more appropriate, then everybody's rude about them as well....
 
Ah, Stuart Turner and Seagull, two reasons Britain has such a pathetic manufacturing base. No R&D spend, no development, designed before the war and not improved. The only two engines to have let me down badly - a Stuart Turner almost cost me the boat and I did a Davies with the Seagull when it had cost me 3 times its purchase price and then gave up in a spring tide trying to get the dinghy ashore.
 
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