1964 17FT Chris Craft Super Sport Flipping Time How To 4 3 2024

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Physics is the challenge. It sort of works with you until you have the hull hanging with one gunwale down and the other one pointing at the ceiling. Overcoming all the inertia a hull hanging in this attitude has, presents two problems, both of which threaten us and our hull.
We would reach up and grab the gunwale pointing to the sky and put a foot against the other one and beginning pulling down with our hands and pushing outward with our feet.
There is an ancient cliché’, Be careful what you wish for!
Once the hull began rolling, our challenge is that motion turned the inertia into momentum, as the roll gained speed. I can remember many a time when the momentum overpowered the three of us and the hull kept on rolling past upside down and vertical once again.
Then I met Phil Jones, AKA Mr. Shepherd, and stopped at his home in Virginia while on my way home from Sunnyland. Phil was facing flipping his ponderous, super-beamy, 22-foot Shepherd Runabout. “Stop by my place and I will show you how to roll her over with a pull rope,”
That method is hugely preferable to voluntarily risking personal injury.
Time went by and I happened on an article extolling the virtues of attaching a winch to the pull rope…. Once again we leapt forward, but still faced the threat of accelerating roll velocity when the gunwales pass vertical.
Adding a second pull rope and a second winch brought us to where we are. Once the two winch straps are in place, grab two much, much longer straps.
View your boat from the stern looking forward. Attach one of the loose straps to the port bilge stringer at about amidships and pass it over the starboard gunwale, down the hullside, across the bottom and up the port hullside. Then attach it to the winch cable’s bitter end with that cable passing over the top of the roller. This is the pull winch.
Repeat this process, albeit tying the other strap to the starboard bilge stringer, passing it over the port gunwale, down, around the hull and up the starboard hullside. From there, run it up and over the roller and connect it to the other winch hanging above the roller and off to the port side. This is the control winch.
With on guy on each winch switch, begin drawing in on the pull winch, continuing until the gunwales are vertical.
Tighten the control winch until both lines are taught.
At this point the two guys coordinate the winches, with the pull winch pulling her over and the control winch controlling the roll. Keep going until she settles fully rolled over and then lower the whole thing onto a pair of boat dollies.
Even with the time lapse, you can see that we were in total control of both inertia and momentum during the entire process. Even better, none of us were anywhere near raging gunwales.
I promise to shoot another, time-lapse-free video when we roll her or possibly my 25-foot, 8-foot-beam Chris S-25 back over.
Time to begin stripping her bottom … Thanks to some dolt, this one will be a terrible task. See the next video, “Please do NOT do this!”
We extract planks in such situations by reaching for our RotoBroaches (BE SURE TO CLICK ANYWHERE ON THIS SMALL AMOUNT OF TEXT TO GAIN ACCESS TO THIS VIDEO’S ENTIRE WRITE-UP.
With her seamed decks and her covering boards fabricated, fitted and installed, bedded in TotalBoat Thixo Flex Adhesive, it is time to flip here and begin working on the bottom
We use a suspended roller over which we pass two six-inch winch straps that continue around, beneath the hull and back up to just above the other gunwale.
In the “good old days,” when we were younger and stupid, we attempted to roll hulls totally by hand. Little boats were, easy, well, not life threatening for us or the hull.
There is a better way.
View your boat from the stern looking forward. Attach one of the loose straps to the port bilge stringer at about amidships and pass it over the starboard gunwale, down the hullside, across the bottom and up the port hullside. Then attach it to the winch cable’s bitter end with that cable passing over the top of the roller. This is the pull winch.
Repeat this process, albeit tying the other strap to the starboard bilge stringer, passing it over the port gunwale, down, around the hull and up the starboard hullside. From there, run it up and over the roller and connect it to the other winch hanging above the roller and off to the port side. This is the control winch.
With on guy on each winch switch, begin drawing in on the pull winch, continuing until the gunwales are vertical.
Tighten the control winch until both lines are taught.
At this point the two guys coordinate the winches, with the pull winch pulling her over and the control winch controlling the roll. Keep going until she settles fully rolled over and then lower the whole thing onto a pair of boat dollies.

[@johnrunciman2654]

I also have a 64 17' Super Sport that has just finished a full rebuild. It is great to see another of these outstanding boats getting a new start of life on the water!

[@mikeerstad3705]

Wow, I've never seen those two work so fast....😄

[@jerryq1000]

Safe to "assume" these are all lake boats? I seen no sacrificial anodes on the strut or rudder...

[@snakemtboatworks]

Not always. Some people do their best to destroy these incredible mahogany boats by running them in salt water, or, what is even worse, launching them in the spring and then leaving them floating in that stuff all season. Then we get them and their owners cry and whine when I hand them fistfulls of rotted shreds of what was wood.