British Seagull

Hi all
Just wondering whether anyone still have one of these ugly ducklings running. Was raised on this as a child and was reminiscing when I thought I heard one the other day.
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Wed, 2016-11-02 13:10

 I remember them, but not seen one in a while.

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2 hp

Wed, 2016-11-02 17:49

 I was given a 2hp Seagull in the late 80,s and I bought a brand new piston from a place in oconner near the jaguar dealer.Went really well.I seen one the same on the wall at a bottle shop I think in North beach

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Wed, 2016-11-02 20:56

Arh yes the old seagull , and your right there kinda ugly but also sort coming back in style

as INDUSTRIAL I suppose.

Years ago I bought a cheap rubber ducky , the smallest one you could mount a engine to , so yep , we

went to Perth on a saturday night and bought the Sunday times , as bargain hunters did back then , and got a seagull

in near enough new condition for 100 bucks or something.

We test fired the rig in swan , and not being a solid floor duck , every time you floored the seagull , the bloody thing would

bend in the middle and try to dip the arse end under!    laugh?   we nearly drowned!

So we did the best thing you could , and bought a leaking cracked ex cray boat tender for bluewater trolling , but thats another story for later!

 

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Have to agree Quad. That Ugly

Thu, 2016-11-03 07:59

Have to agree Quad.
That Ugly mechanical look IMO is rather cool.
Wouldn't mind finding one, even broken, and trying to get it up and running. Pretty much like me trying to resurrect old blowtorches that I used to collect.

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amazing seagull history , linked to villiers, sunbeam etc

Sun, 2016-11-06 16:33

www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/history/history.htm

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 I have one,  almost unused.

Wed, 2016-11-02 21:24

 I have one,  almost unused.  Mums brothers used the British anzani.  You couldnt get lost, you could follow the oil slick home, and smoke with the old oils, the mozzies didn't bite cause the smoke was too thick for them to find you.

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 There's one hanging up in

Thu, 2016-11-03 08:24

 There's one hanging up in the MAAC. The lastime I saw one in use was 25 years ago in Augusta. We had a 10ft trihull with a 6hp Tohatsu and the tinny with the seagull was the only thing we could run down on the estuary. 

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 I've got one . not in

Thu, 2016-11-03 13:23

 I've got one . not in working order but it looks cool in my bar.

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Didn't have a large fuel tank

Thu, 2016-11-03 16:03

 if I remember.bullet proof

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When I was a kid growing up

Thu, 2016-11-03 16:19

When I was a kid growing up in Carnarvon the old man had one as an auxiliary on his yacht. Good thing you could sail on and off the mooring was all I really remember of it.

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outboards

Tue, 2016-11-22 17:56

 

 Was down at Boat city yesterday, and they have 2 or 3 that have been refurbished, on display