Greek Gato Especial Moving Along

Previous boat building experience and excellent craftsmanship have gotten this project off to a fast start

 

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The construction sequence is moving along smoothly now in Athens, Greece as the builders are ready to join the two hulls with a set of bulkheads and the bridgedeck.

 

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The next process after that will be the construction of a hull turning structure so the the hull can be flipped and all the work on the underside completed.

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The hull turning process will look something like the sequence shown below.  Picture something like 6-8 guys lifting the boat from its build support cradles and rolling the hull on a big pile of old tires, scraps of carpeting, big chunks of foam… you get the picture, and then placing the hull on its support structure, upside down.

 

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Should be a good show and I hope that the builders wind-up having a nice hull turning party afterwards.

Chris Ostlind

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