DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT: How to flip a 10000-pound boat hull
I recently visited Lee Shore Boats at its new equipment on Edgewood Drive on Port Angeles' west side where Priest Logging used to be.As luck would have it, I was at most in time to watch personnel move the hull of a new 45-foot utility boat out of the shop so that it could be turned over.
Eric Schneider, who owns Lee Shore Boats, and Joe Beck, who works in the sales trust in, recently negotiated a contract with a large South American multinational corporation for 20 Slide Guard-compliant utility crew boats.
The boats are 45 feet long with a 16-foot girder.
To build the boats, two jigs were made that are about 50 feet long and 17 feet wide and sit on numerous legs with casters.
In sense, they're just big tables.
Incorporated in each leg of the jigs is a leveling mechanism that enables the fabricators to have a perfectly prone plane upon which to build the hull.
The hull of the boat is built upside-down.
Therefore, the first element
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