Saving Old Seagulls

These are all sold now.
Hope you enjoy them Jon and glad to see you got them running so quickly.

the 1968 centrury is free to anyone who can collect it from martlesham heath, ipswich ip5
phone number as above

Alas I haven’t had a boat to use these on for a few years so they may as well be off to a better home.

3 seagulls in various stages of disrepair

I have not used any of these since 2008 (I think) all are complete and have all mounting brackets & controls etc.

1968 century.
Started and ran fine ...

Not a seagull but I thought this may interest some of you on here. i hope this does not contravene any forum rules.
if anyone can share any other information about this type of boat i would like to hear it.
Boat is in Wangford, Suffolk.

A friend and I recently acquired a rather strange little boat ...

i imagine your correct engine number is CPC248 B 1 rather than CPC24881, making it a 1961 century plus with clutch. mix ups in the stamping of the engine numbers appear to have been common at the time. it should be roughly equivelent to a 4.5hp

there is no kill switch, but a hand over the air ...

If you have already tried brute force, blood, tears, WD40 and a lot of heat without success. This is my suggestion of a last resort

I needed to remove a seized bolt holding the gearbox and impellor housing together.

Using a stick welder, put a couple of blobs of weld on top of the seized screw ...

this sounds exactly like the problem i had with my 40+ a few weeks ago. the vibration was the small pinion gear in the gearbox ripping itself to peices, leading to a loss of drive.

have you been checking the oil in the gearbox reguarly?

if this is the case its a pig of a job to split the gearbox ...