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I would reinforce the collar ties with vertical members going up to either the rafters or the ridge pole, then fasten a double 2X4 on top of the collar ties and use eyebolts up through the doubler with big washers. I would use welded eye bolts, not just bent. If there were no collar ties I would install some.
I will probably have another boat that I will have to flip over in a year or two. This is small and lighter CC Runabout so I am thinking if have to do it latter maybe I should look at the option of doing on this one too. more
You might be able to fasten boat trailer rollers on top of the doubler instead of eye bolts and pulleys. The vee shape would keep the strapping centered.
Some boats are light enough that we can - with 4 or 6 guys - pick them up and spin them with simple muscle & teamwork.
I have one more final coat of green to apply to the bottom. Next time I paint a bottom I will tint the primer a lighter shade of the final color as the final paint will cover with less coats.
The flip took only 3 guys. There were 5 of us total. I handled the camera and the getting nervous part. One of the three was acting as weight counter balance on the rear lifting hoist. Two hoists were used, one at the front attached to the boat eye and one at the rear that did the turning. The rear lift was the kind that car restorers use to turn car bodies. It had been modified for boats. The rear lift had a section of 2 steel tubes that fit perfectly into the exhaust ports of the transom. This section was then clamped onto the hoist. The main part of the rear hoist was it’s turning wheel that was notched with a catch latch that could be engaged throughout the turning process. This is an important feature as it allowed us to turn slowing, lock it in place and look around to make sure all was going ok. more
I looked at many videos on Youtube before we attempted the big flip. Some were very entertaining to watch. Some were disasters waiting to happen. The owner of this boat told me they flipped the boat before and told me how they did it. I was a little skeptical to say the least.
There are lots of places on the internet to tell you how to do a nice paint job, but this is what I did. here
If the interior and exterior paint is good enough for your standards, skip to step 5
After the first round of filling has dried (most turn a different color) lightly sand over anywhere there is filler, it is easy to sand too hard here and destroy your filling efforts. Once you have sanded all the filled areas, go over the boat with another round of filler for the areas you missed and sand again after. more
After the dust has settled from the sanding, vacuum it all up from the floor and the boat. Now its time to build a level surface for the new paint to adhere to. Clean the entire boat with acetone, pour a little bit into a rag and just wipe the whole boat, before continuing, be sure the acetone has evaporated (boat won't shine anymore once evaporated)
Once the wood is finished, count all the screws you will need to put it all back together on the boat. I bought all new stainless steel hardware and finishing washers. When screwing into the hull, first put a little dab of caulk in the hole so water cannot seep in. [links]
Butler is somewhat of a Virginia folk hero as he regularly attends Virginia Folklife Festivals and demonstrates his craft. He builds the same skiff at each festival. He stores it in the rafters of his shop and, when he gets ready for a demonstration, he takes it down and pulls it apart. As part of the Virginia Folklife Program in 2006, he agreed to take on an apprentice. The program is designed to help keep Virginia’s occupational culture alive. Warner Rice, whose grandfather, Herbert Rice, had been a Reedville boatbuilder, apprenticed with Butler through the program. “To be honest, I was pretty reluctant about taking on an apprentice. I really prefer to work alone—always have. I guess my main concern was that we wouldn’t work well together. But with Warner, that just wasn’t a problem. I knew him a bit and I got to know him much better through the apprenticeship. Building boats tends to do that,” says Butler.
George P. built boats ranging from 12-foot skiffs to 50-foot deadrise charter boats. George M. has built 12-foot skiffs up to 46-foot deadrise charter boats. His boats range from custom built 38-foot recreational boats to 20 to 25-foot tow-bats (flat-bottom skiffs used in the pound net fishery) to 12-foot flat-bottom tenders used on Chesapeake Bay buyboats. “I still get jobs from the reputation of my father and grandfather,” he says. In 2013, he built an 18-foot deadrise skiff out of cedar planking; stem and stern out of spruce pine, with a fir keel. “Today, I build a whole lot of skiffs for grown men whose fathers and grandfathers worked the water,” he says. “That 18-footer went to a son of a crabber who my father built a boat for. He wanted a skiff just like the one my father built for his father.”
“My father got into the business the day he was born, and one of his first jobs as a boy was to fire up the boiler to the steam engine that powered the planer and band saw. The saw and planer worked off a jack shaft from the ceiling,” says Butler. The 1890s-vintage Josiah Ross wood planer that Samuel Butler bought with the business in 1906 is still in the shop and working. Today, it runs off an electric motor. here
George M. Butler grinds away on the Elva C, Reedville Railway, 2018. Reedville Fishermen’s museum photos [links]
Carrying on the family tradition at Reedville Marine Railway.
Butler’s father, George P. Butler, owned Reedville Marine Railway. Butler grew up fetching nails and tools for his father and blowing sawdust off his dad’s saw marks until he was old enough to hammer his own nails and cut his own planks. Butler and Becky were Northumberland High School students in the late ’60s when they started dating. Becky’s aunt Adell Falter had moved back to Reedville from Baltimore in 1970. She asked Butler to build her a 12-foot flat-bottom crab skiff. Adell owned a cottage on Cubitt Creek and wanted a skiff to gunkhole up into the guts and coves and pole along the mudflats in search of soft-shell crabs. “She expressed some interest in wanting a skiff and asked me if I could build it,” says Butler. “I told her that ‘I guess I could do it but that I have someone to help me along if I get jammed up.’ I’d go down some evenings to Dad’s workshop and work on the skiff. I was dating then, so I couldn’t let that cut into my dating time too much, but I worked along on it. If I had a problem with the skiff, I’d leave it to the next day and ask Dad for advice. Dad always had a skiff going and I had watched him, so I had a pretty good idea how to build a skiff. He didn’t always encourage me to build boats, but he didn’t discourage me either.”