Flipped Over/Flipped Off

First off, I have to start this post by thanking Badass, Hyde, Matt and Adrienne. If it wasn't for them I couldn't make this happen.

So yesterday I was finally able to get enough people together to get the viper flipped over. I'd like to say it went really smoothly, but it wasn't as easy as I though. The biggest boat to date that I've flipped is probably a laser 2, and it's not even comparable to this adventure.

In case anyone is interested in doing this in the future, I've got some step by step instructions.

Material needed:

- At leaset 4 people. 5 is better, and 6 is probably ideal.

- 4 used tires

- 2 pool noodles cut length wise.

- case of beer

- bags of munchies

Steps:

1) Position boat (on trailer) into area that is easy to flip a boat. On the grass is better than cement. Make sure you have at least 8 feet of vertical clearance to flip.

2) Position the used tires to the boat will sit right side up on them on the grass.

3) Lift boat off trailer and onto tires. It's easies to set the stern on first and then lift the bow, and have someone move the trailer out from under the boat.

4) Take a rest and drink a beer.

5) Put pool noodles on one side of the gunwhale (side that will be the low side when flipping).

6) Lift the new high side, low side will go down, and put two tires under the low side so there's clearance for the chain plates to clear.

7) have 2 guys on pushing the boat over, and two bracing it as it comes over. Once the boat gets to verticle, move one more guy to the low side. Once boat gets past verticle, move 4th guy to low side.

8) lower boat down onto the tires completely upside down.

9) Take a rest and drink a beer.

10) 4 guys lift boat up (upside down) and cary to where you want the boat to be to work on. the 5th person collects the tires and positions them to where the boat will finally sit.

11) put boat down in final position on the tires.

12) Drink beer 2-4 beers and eat some munchies.

13) Done.

After all my buddies left, I was able to start working on the bottom. I wanted to remove the old drain plug, and to remove the delaminated gelcoat. Attached are some pictures of how that went.