Kiwi rescued after 2 days adrift in Dinghy in the Med

[rossd 16]

By starting I mean one pull as winding the rope around again is unprofessional! How many lawnmowers start in one go?

[Priscilla II 417]

Didn't realise they actually started? 

 

A cruel cruel slur on British outboards.

40 years of idleness and one pull bingo.

The trick is making sure all your pants are the same colour.

http://youtu.be/-adwm9K77pY

[Fogg 427]

Astonished that anyone would willing want to buy and rely on a Seagull in this day & age. I say this as a Brit

who’s owned 2 and even visited the factory where they were made in an attempt to resolve ‘issues’ (far too many times).

 

My last experience of our bought-new-but-never-worked-properly Seagull was watching my father lift it up over his head and throw it off the back of our 18ft trailer sailor at the entrance to Chichester Harbour. It’s probably still down there somewhere.

[MuzzaB 14]

I guess we were just lucky.  Dad had one when I was born - it is one of my earliest boating memories.  Then he bought another, and it was the first outboard I learned to start and operate as a kid.  The last one we had - purchased circa '74 or '75, was the 5hp model with a clutch, long shaft and a large 5-bladed prop.  He called it the barge engine.  It would push an 18' displacement hull along quite happily.  [Oops - OK Boomer - you mean 5.5 metres].

 

Then in the '80s my uncle bought an old 2.5hp out of pure nostalgia and used it on a wonderful wooden dinghy he had built. 

 

None of them ever skipped a beat.  Ahh - memories.

[Luigi Vercotti 7]

Astonished that anyone would willing want to buy and rely on a Seagull in this day & age. I say this as a Brit

who’s owned 2 and even visited the factory where they were made in an attempt to resolve ‘issues’ (far too many times).

 

My last experience of our bought-new-but-never-worked-properly Seagull was watching my father lift it up over his head and throw it off the back of our 18ft trailer sailor at the entrance to Chichester Harbour. It’s probably still down there somewhere.

According to Wikipedia, the late eighties models are the ones to avoid, would that tie in with your bad experiences? My experience, which was prior the then, is reliable and near bulletproof.

[Priscilla II 417]

Not necessarily environmentally friendly but hey it’s a boomers thing.

I love the smell of two stroke in the morning....

[Black Panther 1,745]

One of the good things about living aboard is not listening to people mowing lawns sunday morning.

[Chloe 7]

According to Wikipedia, the late eighties models are the ones to avoid, would that tie in with your bad experiences? My experience, which was prior the then, is reliable and near bulletproof.

 

They have always been rubbish, we used to think they where the bee's knee back in the 60s and they where.

 

So long as you toke a bunch of spear plugs,ten gallons of fuel for the mile shear pins, and last but not least another spear engine and oars. 

 

If they where such hot stuff none of the other manufacturers would have got a look in. They where made in mother Britten, Engines for butter and sheep. 

[mattm 106]

I’ve had 3, brought them all from people who hadn’t used them in decades. Fresh fuel and they all ran. Still have a 5hp, a few years back we used it 3 days a week to go fishing - trawling for kawai in fact, would turn it off every time we caught one and restart it after. Never rowed home. Same old spark plug, never broken a shear pin either. They do need a heap of oil though, quite smokey. I might get it out today and give it a go if it stops raining.