Flipping a Hull

ksreynolds74 · #1 06-11-2007, 11:32 AM

I tried a search for flipping a hull, but can't seem to find anything.

I have a 22 Mako that I'm working on. There's no engine, console, or rigging in the boat. There is some fiberglass work I'd like to do on the bottom, and some have suggested that it may be easier if the hull were rolled over.

I have thought about using a forklift connected to one of the lifting eyes on the transom. I would think that if the lift was picked up slowly, the bow could be used as a 'pivot point, and the boat would roll over on its own. With no anchor pulpit or bow rail, it may work....

Fr. Frank · #2 06-11-2007, 12:00 PM

You can also hang the boat by the lifting eyes in the stern and the bow eye in the front. Not easy, but do-able. I have also seen an 18' Checkmate Eluder bolted to a heavy-duty engine stand through the motor mounting bolt-holes in the transom, with the engine stand having extended legs. The whole boat could be rotated that way. They were blueprinting the hull.

muddywater · #3 06-11-2007, 01:54 PM

It's probably the keyword "flipping". It seems that most have not flipped them so much as jacked them up and placed on blocks or hung the boat with hoists
and straps or used other methods to lift. There are at least a couple threads for those methods of working on the bottom. I think I might have started one of
them myself. Let me see what I can find.
Here is one:
http://www.classicseacraft.com/forum...rev=#Post49445
And here is the other:
http://www.classicseacraft.com/forum...r=33787&Forum=,,,,,,All_Forums,,,,,,&Words=&Searchpage=2&Limit=2 5&Main=33654&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=657&da terange=1&newerval=10&newertype=y&olderval=&oldert ype=&bodyprev=#Post33787

warthog5 · #4 06-11-2007, 10:19 PM

http://www.classicmako.com/projects/xshark/bw6.htm

http://www.classicmako.com/projects/xshark/bw7.htm

bigeasy1 · #5 06-12-2007, 11:20 AM

A few years ago we did this to a 21' older Aquasport ctr console.We put two slings around each end of the boat,and hoisted it up to the steel trusses in the wharehouse we kept it in.
We ran the slings thru pulley blocks,and once we had it elevated we just turned it over.It actually was fairly easy to rotate it.
Once we had it flipped,we set it on some wood bracing we built at waist height,so we could work on it.
Maybe you could use something similar to this,it worked well for us.Good luck