Sunday, November 11, 2012

And We're Off!

Well, it has been many months of distractions from the boat, but we finally were able to get the boat off the trailer in preparation for turning over.  We spent time rearranging the garage to make room to work, and recently, doing some repair work to the shipping cradle so the boat could go back on it for a little while before the actual flipping over.


To lift the Resorter off the trailer, we attached the chain hoist to the header of the garage door for the front lifting eye, and the engine hoist for the rear lifting eye.


Once the trailer was out from under the boat, we rolled the shipping cradle back under and pushed the boat back into position so the trailer could be put away in the garage.


Here is a short time-lapse video of the work.


Internal cross bracing was added to provide support in preparation for flipping over.


Next task, building the flip over rig.