Boat Flipping Pictorial
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:48 pm
16 new ribs steam bent and installed now it is time to flip the boat.
First step is to build some bracing. I used 2x4’s on edge with 2x6’s and stub 2x4 pieces to build a fork at the end of each brace. They are spaced out to take the load and help the hull maintain it’s shape during the rollover. Nothing is screwed into the hull or trim boards.
Forked ends act like clamps to hold braces in place. I then added some cross bracing and cut the ends of the braces at an angle to help with the roll over.
Boat is lifted off of jack stands and set on 3 tires along the keel and 1 tire at each corner of the transom. The transom tires need to be positioned so that the corners of the boat roll across the tire and not into the hole in the center of the tire.
I also put 2 tires under the chine of the boat as these are the points that the boat will be rolling on.
We did this roll with 3 people as that was all that I could find to help.
We started to roll the hull off the keel and onto the chine. With two of us holding up the boat the third person moved the tires from the keel area around to the outside rub rail at the top of the shear strake.
Once the boat is on edge we started to switch sides in preparation of letting the boat down. We also positioned two of the dollies that the boat will sit on. With all of us on the same side we lowered the boat down onto the rear dollie and the dollie that goes under the bow.
The hull now rests upside down on three dollies.
As the pictures show the bottom of this boat is in good shape. No hogs or plank damage. On to stripping the bottom.
Karl
First step is to build some bracing. I used 2x4’s on edge with 2x6’s and stub 2x4 pieces to build a fork at the end of each brace. They are spaced out to take the load and help the hull maintain it’s shape during the rollover. Nothing is screwed into the hull or trim boards.
Forked ends act like clamps to hold braces in place. I then added some cross bracing and cut the ends of the braces at an angle to help with the roll over.
Boat is lifted off of jack stands and set on 3 tires along the keel and 1 tire at each corner of the transom. The transom tires need to be positioned so that the corners of the boat roll across the tire and not into the hole in the center of the tire.
I also put 2 tires under the chine of the boat as these are the points that the boat will be rolling on.
We did this roll with 3 people as that was all that I could find to help.
We started to roll the hull off the keel and onto the chine. With two of us holding up the boat the third person moved the tires from the keel area around to the outside rub rail at the top of the shear strake.
Once the boat is on edge we started to switch sides in preparation of letting the boat down. We also positioned two of the dollies that the boat will sit on. With all of us on the same side we lowered the boat down onto the rear dollie and the dollie that goes under the bow.
The hull now rests upside down on three dollies.
As the pictures show the bottom of this boat is in good shape. No hogs or plank damage. On to stripping the bottom.
Karl