Momentus occasion folks. Talked and talked about this day forever. Schemed and dreamed of apparatus and technique to get this #1400+ plywood and epoxy bowl flipped over. Finally settled on building a cradle, lag bolted to the frame, carpet lined and will be left in place (bottom portion only) until shes rolled out for good.
Steps:
So here is how this post will go. Mostly pictures with comments. Not much else. Its mostly action so a long, drawn out explanation makes little sense...
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| Here you see the cradle constructed out of a combination of 2" x 6" and 2" x 12" scrap lumber. the 12" stuff is notched for the keel and the bottom, green 2" x 6" is bolted to the frame via a stub piece of 2" x 4" bolted to a frame (you will see better in last photo. Jacks are being used to lift the boat off of the ladder frame underneath which must be wrecked out before turning. |
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| Here is the opposite side with a large tie down ring bolted to the 2" x 6" and the hoist attached. |
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Can't see the chain hoist but it is hooked into a piece of chain looped around the truss above the hole that was bored into the ceiling. We made new holes in the ceiling later. Lots of ventilation now!
She's up and starting to slide a little to the right, like we want but needed help. using a come along we winched the bottom toward the right and continued to lift straight up. the chain hoists were slow which gave us a lot of control.
Another view of the same angle. In this view you can see that the far upper right corner of the cradle has embedded itself in the ceiling. sawzall came in handy to remove "offending corners". The cradle ended up being trimmed back quite a bit.
My brother Joe sliding the boat with the help of the come along
as we prepare to pull it over to its natural position
Here it is. Its bottom to never see the sun again (we hope). The process took us around 3 hours and could have gone faster but had to regroup a few times to figure out what to do next or how to address a problem or two (mainly ceiling height). Time for construction again.
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