Saving Old Seagulls

Evening gents,

I'm looking for a new (second hand) inflatable for my 1976 Forty Plus, I have seen a 2.3m roundtail - do you think its suitable for engine and would it be big enough for 2 guys plus a little fishing gear?

The textbook cold -engine start is to flood the bowl; do you do that on warm re-start? If not, It may be taking one pull to suck in some fuel first, on the warm restart. Not everyone needs to do that of course. Do you shut off the engine by blocking the carb intake? That would flood a little but (i...

Been out on another trip, water was a lot more choppy but engine pushed boat really well.....still no fish....excuse to take it out again :D One small point I have noticed is the engine starts first pull from cold, if you kill engine after its been working it wont start again straight away, just lea...

Decided to try the water and headed down to Poole Harbour with the inflatable and forty plus today, went well engine started first pull and pushed boat along nicely. I didn't catch any fish but my mate caught 2 small bass which were released.

are you running in a bin? if you are, take the prop off. have you let the choke off once its started usually within 10 secs. odd? always always always ran fine for me. no trouble at all. i understand you've cleaned out the carb have you! is the inside of the tank good and clean. fuel tap not blocke...

Started engine up today, fired up 2nd pull, running fine on tickover, when you try and increase revs engine dies???? No water from telltell but expect it needs higher revs.

Any ideas?

Stelios_Rjk wrote:Beautiful little engine, I hope you enjoy it!!

Thanks Stelios, I hope to try engine out on the water next week.

Keith.P wrote:Silly question, what's the round disk on the top of the fuel tank?

It's where the tank has been repaired by a previous owner.

Afternoon, just finished giving my recently acquired Forty Plus a lick of paint and a clean and thought I would post some before and after photos. Quite pleased with results for my first attempt.
Posted after and before but you get the idea

Bear in mind the differing gearbox fitted to 40 plus and forty minus engines. the forty plus has a larger prop running at lower gearbox RPM. fit the smaller prop to the forty plus and you will get less thrust and a tendency to over rev. So a slower boat and a screaming engine, revving beyond its li...

headdownarseup wrote:what are you up to Rob?


jon

Hi Jon,

Just thinking aloud, had what i thought would be the answer confirmed
Hope your new project is going well.

Michael wrote:More revs but I doubt more speed. The 40 minus prop is pretty small if I remember correctly

Yes, its quite a bit smaller.

Afternoon, I will be using my new/old 1976 Forty Plus on my 3 meter Inflatable boat, now this may be daft question but if I was to use a smaller prop from a 40 minus would it give the boat more speed?

Double post.

Pleasure to meet you today Jon, thank you for my new toy! Cant wait to get in the water