This albatross popped up on Facebook marketplace if anyone is looking for one. Looks good £4k.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 396396043/

Burton power do a really good uprated X flow, expensive though.

not sure if you can make it out, hard to post a quality pic on the forum.

I agree, the gap is too big. I will post a picture of mine upside down tomorrow. The gap is nominal. I would suggest that the shaft has moved rearward when they swapped the engine?

Looks really super! I am in Dorset and have a Simmonds but it was missing the rudder when I purchased it. Any chance I could measure yours up so I can fabricate a new one?
Tim

Does she still look the same? Are the wooden bumpers still on.

I have a Worthy Blake 1600 cross flow available. It is the ford unit, fully marinised (even has a sump oil cooler, marine exhaust manifold and jabsco pump). I purchased it off ebay for a project. it has had some work done as all the blanking caps on the block and head are new. the seller promised to...

I pass this house in Bournemouth quite often. Has a pearly miss with what looks like a period or certainly quite old outboard on it.

Pictures loaded wrong way round, looks like I am taking it to pieces.
Many thanks to Keith and Janice burgess who I met today. Very welcoming and encouraging.

I am now a fully paid up member!
Back to work stiffening up a framing member that was hacked about at some point to get the exhaust pipes to the back of the boat. It had lost a lot of strength and generally wibbly wobbly.