I have a forty done in one of my other videos, I used Halfords gloss black spray can and there fuel resistant lacquer. All depends on how fast you are at polishing 😁

I had it made by these guys bargehawthorn.info/boat-covers/

@@1968ferg Thank you!

The full story is being documented here. www.boards.ie/discussion/2055963665/classic-wooden-speedboat-build-sink-search-for-recovery-and-rebuild#latest

ABBY WOODS IN Baldoyle industrial estate.

@@1968ferg that's great they are actually close by!

Looking forward to the boats restoration, you have a subscriber here haha ;)

They are very easy to take apart the only thing you might have trouble with is the flywheel to do this get someone to hold the engine by the flywheel loosen the nut and hit it a wack. Here is a link to some of my restorations that might help you out www.boards.ie/discussion/2057219073/seagull-restoration/p1

@@1968ferg Thanks for the reply.

I did but I live in Ireland and now with Brexit it costs me £25 in customs for a £2 washer so I will be doing no more 😞 along with other engines like the BMC's they are just not cost effective to keep running.

I'd say you can get away with almost everything with these engines , try it and see.

Any old car wax or hairspray will protect it from tarnishing.

It is now on display at the National Maritime Museum of Ireland so don't think it will see salt "sea salt" anytime soon 😀

It's a 125mm fiberglass tube, I'm not sure you could use PVC as it would be harder to fiberglass inplace.

No still looking for her although not so much lately as we are still in lockdown here 😢

Hi I get them here I use the waterslide ones. www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/buy_spares/buy_spares.htm

@@1968ferg thank you, how did you clean up your propeller?

@@fluffyhead6377 Same pads on the drill as I use to clean up the exhaust tube in the video I think they are called scotchbrite and they come in different grades, M3 also do them next I used the soft metal polishing kit from Halfords.

@@1968ferg ok nice job the foam polishing wheel or is it cloth?

@@fluffyhead6377 Some are cloth one is like brush bristles.

There are other videos on my KZbin channel that are dedicated just to the engine sounds 😀

By the way the guitar is Out Of Tune!

@@walthammond6816 , that really puts the icing on the cake. Bad enough that they play the music but then they assault our ears with an out of tune guitar. This is unacceptable.😮

4 years later and no problems with it, there is a rubber gasket between the motor and the tube so I would expect a small bit of movement as it's quite a powerful motor.

@@1968ferg cool .

Check out my other video called v8 music if you want engine sounds.

Very cool crackerbox! Lose the music!

Hi Olga, you can buy the plans from "Glen-L" just look for crackerbox if it is your first time building a boat I would also recommend their books "boat building with plywood " and "inboard motor installation " Some of my other videos have images of the build and there are some on Pinterest . Best of luck if you do decide to build one.

@@1968ferg thank you, mister Butler, for you recommendations🙂🙂

5.7 mercruiser, same as a small block GM Chevy.