Would you buy a silent Seagull? The Torqueegull...

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Warning: totally insincere thread. Unlike all my others... :rolleyes:

Imagine the scene...a windless, cloudless summer morning; two hours till high water in one of our big natural harbours; dayboats on moorings, hoisting sails that don't stir, and the noisiest thing around is the squabbling ducks and water dripping off old Ben's oar-blades.

Until...oh Good Grief! Old Ben's found twelve quid in his turn-ups, and spent the lot on a Seagull outboard at the seaboot sale...and, how dare he? He's going to destroy the blissful atmosphere of this perfect morning, with two-stroke smoke and more racket than Wimbledon.

Just imagine if Ben turned out to be a volt-vamp, and had shoehorned the workings of an electric outboard inside the distinctively archaic form of the British Seagull. After all, the most appealing thing about Seagulls was always the b&w pictures - very trad, very quiet.

If anybody starts rebuilding Seagull outboards to run on electricity, please remember, you read it here, first...:rolleyes:

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I suppose he's got a 235 amp/hour battery in the shoulder-pack...tough guy.
 
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Been done a few times in the states with 10hp Hondas. But an electric Seagull would still find a way to make enough noise to wake the dead. Plus you'd have to turn the switch on and off three times before it would start.
 
I suppose you could probably dress a Torqueedo up by bolting a Seagull flywheel and fuel tank on top without too much difficulty. Would look the part at a distance. Perhaps one for the "Spirit of Tradition" types :)

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Or how about 'Oartomatic Power'? The business-ends of a couple of these, slotted into holes routed into your oar-blades...

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...a pair of foot-switches under the stern thwart, a couple of mid-weight batteries under the rowing seat, and off we go...

...and people on the quayside remark how "these old-timers may look a bit past-it, but they surely make their boats move, with barely a stroke on the oars..."

Not quite sure how it would be advantageous to locate the propellors in the oars rather than the transom...but perhaps electric sculling might be the answer?

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The Bangkok Klong long-tail boats have the idea, though I can't see 007 powering away on a date with Britt Eckland using 12volts...Miss Goodnight wouldn't stay awake long enough to live up to her name. :rolleyes: Has to be worth a try, though...

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Britt-ish See-girl

I believe I'd put her in charge of turning things on...

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...works for me. Very ampowering. Watt? Watt's wrong with that? She understands + and -, male & female parts. :rolleyes:
 
I remember somebody, probably Bill Beavis, describing how it was possible to end up hand-cranking a Seagull-powered tender from the quayside, all the way to your mooring, without it ever starting. And I think that was on a model before recoil starters were fitted...

...but maybe there'd be a nifty, green solution to dinghy propulsion in that; some kind of ratcheting coil-spring fitted inside the Seagull (take out all the petrolly components)...and you can 'wind-up' the spring using the recoil start, sufficient to turn a big slow-ish 12" prop, giving the dinghy about five foot of progress before it's necessary to do it again! Beats rowing, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Oh. :o :(
 
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