Saving Old Seagulls

Your Tracker Gizmo is impressive!

The Bath Tub boat is a nice shape, does the bathtub act as a sea toilet?

Thanks for the pics!

It might pay you to replace the wire connecting the points to the coil, some insulation on it might be useful.

Listen to John C. he knows his stuff!

What happened on the Waikato this Easter? nobody see's anything on the internet anymore.

Did it run?

How many boats?

Who did really well?

It rather looks like your featherweight has been upgraded by it's previous owner whose upgraded the ignition with a Wipac mk4 CDI, that from the look of the flywheel cover was recycled from a 170. The lower unit & prop also look a bit newer than this ones date of manufacture, but I'd have to ask...

Bruce when these motors left the factory I can assure you the cylinder fitted the crankcase perfectly!

It either got broken or the parts got shuffled up, if you send me good pictures, in privately or in public I might be able to tell you where your problem lies.

Bruce, we can list your standard size cylinder on the Marston Wish List should you require one, hate to think what one will cost.
This is the least common of all the Marston cylinders.

As I've never heard any mention of a 50mm 20 oversize piston with ring gaps suitable for a series one OA

Hugo you said in May "should be in a museum" do you know of one?

I've heard of a private one in New Zealand,

Nothing in the UK, not even a site for collectors that isn't on facebook & as we all know "grandads don't do facebook"

Now that is interesting, but it does pose a few questions. Has anyone ever seen a green painted fuel tank with a Seagull logo underneath the paint? Must have been green as tank "straps" green. Air intake later fitting? Anyone in their 80's or 90's remember their father having "insulat...

You could always clean & set the points twice & try again.

The outboard version wasn't fitted with the air intake silencer which sits where the fuel tank normally is fitted & the carb didn't have the cast aluminium inlet manifold, the air inlet was part of the cylinder.

If I remember right, the carb if original should be an Amal 419, the exhaust is asbestos lagged up to the stainless water cooled "silencer" & it should come with an aluminium hull plate that's probably fibre glassed into the hull as that's the total motor support. A perfect display sup...

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You have a fixed gear Forty Plus (FP) that doesn't have a clutch which would enable it to run without the prop turning.

Post the full serial number of your Seagull, which will be found on the lower half of the crankcase, we will then be able to tell if your Seagull has the ability to run without the prop rotating.

Did you get any pics Andrew?

I think you slander 170's " notoriously unreliable motor " what was driving Kenny's little boat & I think broke the record?

You've told us when & how, but where & what does it entail?

Thanks for keeping us informed.