Rolling the finished hull - July 1, 2005
The crew, and rolling the hull a quarter turn to vertical.
Here is the important part of the crew: from left to right, my son Bob, and two of his college buddies, Gerald and Marian.
This next picture was taken from inside the boat shed and shows the finished hull sitting on the strongback with wooden wheels attached ala Reuel Parker.
This is the same pic as the one above, except we have just finished removing the strongback. Scary!! Here's where we deviated from Parker's suggestion: We chose to not extend the wooden wheels on the left so that they rested on the ground. Instead, we built them as high up as we could, resting them on concrete blocks, so that, when we remove the blocks and lowered that side of the hull, we would get, free, a significant portion of the rotation of the hull.
Here's the hull having been lowered down on that side.
With a little bit of work on the other side with a hydraulic jack and a come-along on the near side attached to the frame of a pickup truck, we easily rotated the hull to this position. Notice that we have already nailed a "sled" to the rolling frames, and we have laid out a sheet of plywood and three fence posts that we hope will allow us to dry sail the hull down to the barn.
