Last saturday I gathered up some of my karate students and some friends from work for the highly anticipated roll over. It had been raining on and off here in central Florida for about a week and still drizzling at the designated hour.
The tires that I left outside to be used as cushions for the turning were full of water. It's a little bit of an engineering problem to figure out how to get all the water out from the inside of an old tire. We ended up throwing them around until they were empty.
We decided to try to turn it in place. First we pushed it as far as we could to one side of the garage
Some strategically place tires and were were ready to go.
Rolling...
Rolling...
Rolling...
Rolling...
We stop on the side long enough to remove the building cradle.
Since we didn't have enough room to roll the boat completely over we stopped at this point and slid the boat back over to one side of the garage before continuing the roll.
Reposition the tires...
... and continued the roll over.
Settling it down on the tires.
Done!!!
Get everything back out of the rain an into the garage.
And it is done.
Total time 1/2 hour.
It was actually much easier than I had imagined. We had 5 adults but probably could have done it with less.
Since the roll I've been working on cleaning up the underside of the rub rails and getting them to their final shape. I haven't leveled the hull yet I think I'm going to use jack stands at the rear to get the height right.
I'm adding in some odds and ends time to account for glassing the rudder, drilling drain holes, filling the weave on the companionway assembly, etc. It's all looking pretty good.
Hours this session: 12
Hours total: 502
