Sent: September 28, 2002
Subject: Matt Krick Hunky Dory update
9-28-02
Well she is finally turned over. Can't believe how big this boat is when
you finally get her flipped over. The boat turning did not go as smoothly as
expected. My faithful boat building buddy Mike was nice enough to pull some
strings and get access to a boom truck. Turned out the hanger doors where too
short and the boom could not fit inside the hanger where we are building it.
That turned out as my friend said "to be complete and utter failure".
Well when we took the boom truck back there
was a small forklift size crane. We drove that back to the hanger going 5mph.
On the first attempt to lift the boat with the smaller crane one of the tires
of it came off the ground. But with a little manuvering and patience Mike made
her work just fine. After we got the boat outside on the grass, just three
people were enough to lift one side of the boat up on edge to do the finally
flipping. We attacted a wench to the crossmembers on the frames and let the
boat down gentely on what we all hope will be her permenent resting surface,
her bottom.
