Hi

It is possible to build a cradle around the hull to turn it if it is
only that weight, but you better stay clear if you don't design the
cradle perfectly safe. anyway if your boat are fiber glass, I suggest,
you look into how to make a sheet to fit exact and around the edge of
where the dameage are, if you before this angled the remaining edges in
the hole the right amount, you can from inside use that patch to mold a
new surface that in glasfiber or Epoxy and glasfiber then patch the
hole from inside.
So maby your repair don't ask you to roll the boat.

It is possible to build a cradle around the hull to
turn it if it is only that weight, but you better
stay clear if you don't design the cradle perfectly
safe.

Now that you have pointed this out. I surely have a feeling that
rolling over a 1,000-lb boat is not such a good idea in a home
environment. I should repair it with it sitting upright on dry land.

anyway if your boat are fiber glass, I suggest,
you look into how to make a sheet to fit exact
and around the edge of where the dameage are,
if you before this angled the remaining edges in
the hole the right amount, you can from inside
use that patch to mold a new surface that in
glasfiber or Epoxy and glasfiber then patch the
hole from inside.

Sound like a plan. Thanks.

By the way, the boat is probably something like 700-lb instead of
1,000-lb as what I had mentioned. Regardless, this is too heavy for me
and my friend to roll it over using manpower alone.

Jay Chan

How to roll over a boat:

1. rent two half ton chain hoists.
2. hang hoists above boat
3. attach blocks with very large throat/shives to hoists.
4. buy nylon hold down trucking straps.
5. pass straps around boat and thru block.
6. lift boat
7. roll over

It's a one man job.

Jaykc.. please exchouse that don't know all the english words , but
what I tried to show is the way I done such repair several times , ----
emagine you could find a simular boat and the owner was a nice guy .
Then you find the same area of his boat and simply make a small mold
covering the hole in your boat, so when you repair the hole you cast
the form from a simular boat. The important thing is to make that flat
mold in say two layers of glasfiber and resin , treadhis boat with the
right slip solvent -- usealy some water soluted agent that often is
plain carpenter glue and plenty of wax, before you start taking the
mold.
Such patch are easy temp. glued over the hole and as long as you dried
out the edges and angled them the right amount ,make the build up
repair cover the edge well , then such repair can be made so the boat
is as good as new --- but no cut corners everything need to be
perfectly clean and dry and the small cracks that will show just need
to be filled with a 2 compoment epoxy filler.

Jaykc.. please exchouse that don't know all the english words , but
what I tried to show is the way I done such repair several times , ----
emagine you could find a simular boat and the owner was a nice guy .
Then you find the same area of his boat and simply make a small mold
covering the hole in your boat, so when you repair the hole you cast
the form from a simular boat. The important thing is to make that flat
mold in say two layers of glasfiber and resin , treadhis boat with the
right slip solvent -- usealy some water soluted agent that often is
plain carpenter glue and plenty of wax, before you start taking the
mold.

Thanks for the idea of making a copy of the damaged area from the same
boat model. This sounds good as long as I can find the same boat model.
If not, I will have to make a mold from my boat, fine tune the mold,
and form a patch using the mold.

Jay Chan

) writes:
Jaykc.. please exchouse that don't know all the english words , but
what I tried to show is the way I done such repair several times , ----
emagine you could find a simular boat and the owner was a nice guy .
Then you find the same area of his boat and simply make a small mold
covering the hole in your boat, so when you repair the hole you cast
the form from a simular boat.

I recall that discussion and recall pointing out that all he has to do is
walk around to the other side of his own boat to make a matching mould,
most boats being symetrical.

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