Flippin’ a 64 Nautique

We're just starting the restoration of a 1964 SN. The stringers and all framework in this boat are near excellent (pre-foam era) but like Boat Dr's American Skier was, she's full of gelcoat cracks. We're going the Petite Easypoxy route and so we decided the easiest way to get her bottom was to flip her over. (There's your next signature line, HW) I searched the forums thinking I'd seen some details on this before but couldn't find a thread, so we proceeded as we'd planned and rolled the boat using a engine cherry picker for the bow and a come-along and choker for the aft end. We had already moved the boat off its trailer and had her sitting on the dolly we used for the camper and trip to GL. We then lifted from one gunnel with the choker cinched there and she came right up on the other gunnel over several large tires. We then gently let her roll on over deck-down on several more tires and then lifted her back up straight (upside down) and onto the dolly again, resting on several carpeted 4x's sitting perpendicular across the dolly bunks. The whole thing took an hour maybe. Now we can get to the entire hull without destroying someone's back, shoulders and neck. Plans "right now" are for the entire boat to be painted Correct Craft dark red similar to Skicat's (Greg) skier or The Lake's (Chuck) SN, and hopefully in time for GL-08. This boat came with an Interceptor 289.
The boat is lifted and dolly pulled out.   

The boat swiveled great off the bow eye which is fortunately somewhat high on this boat:

That's Nautique John stabilizing while I watched and lowered the bow with the cherry picker:

Firmly sitting upside down:

And Boaty testing the hull's integrity:

Reid, Any method that works without damage to the boat or a person is the correct one. I think the thread you were looking for is Farmers but his pictures were lost when Keith switched to the new host. Farmer bilt Dannenburgs method with a gantry and straps to roll the hull. Very easy to use and worth the effort to build if you are planning on doing more than a couple boats. Next step for your building is a double bridge crane and 4 hoists and you'll have hulls flipped in 10 minutes!

Looks pretty smooth, I have had people recommend removing the exhaust and running a strap through the two holes to give you a pivot point in back similar to the tow hook in front that way it could be done without overhead beam work... Have only used the bunch of guys and a row of tires method myself..

Nice job Reid . Where did this boat come from ?

How did I get mixed up in Reid's twisted world?

Reid - So the real questions is how do we turn it back over once it is finished? Reversing this with a beautiful finish is going to take some more TLC...

Santo

reidp wrote: Unrelated, just noticed on your profile that your occupation is listed as "engine tester". Shouldn't that be "engine blower upper", oh skiff meister extraordinaire?

Reid, I think you've got this engine testing wrong! He may test engines but the ones that blow up have been pre driven. I wonder who pre drove the skiff???

Eric, I would like to have one indeed. Do you know a source and how much $$, as we don't do this that often but hope to do more down the road. TimB or someone mentioned something about creating a bracket going thru the exh ports and spinning the transom off that. I like our current means of supporting and rolling at the bow without damaging a new finish but with just a little more protective cushioning.

And I still wish you'd reconsider your tolerance for itchy fiberglass in exchange for that Tique. Or maybe I should just grow a set and tackle it ourselves.

Pete how do you come up with all this info day after day?

john

Reid, run that deal by me again..

youve got me thinking, how much work is involved on the 67?