Aloha, Seeing there may be some seagull experts here - a friend has a 1980's seagull on a recently purchased used boat. On his first outing, it ran readily, but only at an idle, wouldn't rev up beyond that. I realize that's not much info, and, sometimes someone knows just what that's about for some particular machine - if anyone here does, please advise. He's fairly mechanical so I am assuming he would know if it was just a broken throttle cable or something simple like that. If more info is needed I can ask him for details on the motor. Hope to be taking a sail with him in near future and would like to have a working auxiliary. His previous outing involved a rather long channel passage where the engine at idle held speed over ground at zero vs. outgoing tide...not quite useful for getting home... :-) thanks, John S. -- John Schinnerer - M.A., Whole Systems Design -------------------------------------------- - Eco-Living - Whole Systems Design Services People - Place - Learning - Integration john@eco-living.net http://eco-living.net