Forward bulkhead

[chriselk]

Well, we temporarily screwed the deck in place and put one layer of 17 oz on the top.

Now we wanted to flip it and fix the hull.

We put some reinforcements on the gunnels first.

To flip it, we screwed 4 sheets of plywood together overlapping 90 degrees. Then we cut an 8 foot circle. We reinforced with 2 2 x 6's. If you recall, we had already test mounted the bracket on the transom and had half in holes going thru. We drilled one more at the very top.

We thru bolted the "circle of death" to the transom. One thing to note that circle weighs about 200 lbs and could crush someone. To screw it on the transom with about 5 inches of clearance, we jacked the trailer up. Then when we hooked it up it would not scrap.

We found that to flip it, it was best if we ran the rope amidships.