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February 14th, 2006, 06:08 AM
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Come back occassionally as I update the site, and add pictures. We are still doing finishing work, such as thresholds, the executive room, and permanent stairs.
Níl aon ghaoth ná go séideann cóir do dhuine éigin! from an old Irish proverb.
For nearly 40 years, the Quantico Yacht Club operated aboard the Marine Corps Base Quantico on the Potomac River. Our Clubhouse was actually two, very old, house trailers, with a common peaked roof protecting the seam where they joined. Our "great room" was about 20'x20'.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/QYC_Before_Isabel_49.jpg
In September 2004, Hurricane Isabel pushed a 12 to 14 foot tidal surge up the river. Our Clubhouse was about four feet too low for this, the highest water ever recorded at Quantico. The facility was left with some damage.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/After_Isabel_5.jpg
We found a set of class-rooms in Glouster Virginia, courtesy of AAA Mobile.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Potential_Replacement_in_Glouster_5.jpg
From the front corner you can better see the "class room" use of the modular facility. While the trailers go down the road front half and back half, when set up they have a right and left classroom, with each room having two doors and three windows. As you will see later on, as we divied the inside space into rooms, we had to keep in mind the doors and windows.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Potential_Trailer_Front_View_49.jpg
We put a dollar of earnest money down and waited through a club evaluation of various options. The club adopted the AAA option and we proceeded to clear debris. The one "GOTCHA" we encountered was moving a 64' trailer into the 50' space we had between the old peaked roof and the end of our property -- so, we had to lift the roof.
The first step was to fabricate a pair of 12x6 inch, 28 feet-long, beams. We built the beams by running 2, 12 feet long, 2x12 stock end to end with a short 4 foot long extension, parallel to an identical setup with the short extension at the opposite end, with scrap 2x4 from the old trailer walls, sandwiched between the 12x12s.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Lifting_Beam_5.jpg
[Also, looking back at it, someone noted that we had three pairs of beam, more or less ready to go, as part of the old trailer frames, and asked, why didn't we use these? That is a fair question. We used the wood for several reasons. First, the weight of the steel beams made the manipulation of them difficult. The beams were part of the trailer floor and required that we tear out the trailers before we could get to them. By using the wood, we were able to mount the beams while we had the old roofs, giving us a a safe platform right under our feet. We did not have to work 12 feet off the ground.]
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Up_in_the_rafters.jpg
Once we had the beams set up under the roof trusses, we had to place six poles in the ground to carry the roof, one it was moved. This was a pretty straight foward process. We used basic highschool geometry to measure cross corners and set our square. We then dug a deep hole and poured a footer. Then, after ensuring that our 20-feet 6x6 poles were the same size, we used a simple water level and a marked each pole 10 feet from it's bottom. In theory, with each mark at the same level, the top of each pole was supposed to be the same height.
Pic of water level and mark here.
With the poles set, cold weather moved in and we needed to choose between moving a roof, with all the debris on the ground and our workers standing in the cold, holding lines and, for a good part of the event, watching what was happening. or, continue the hard, body warming tear out. Figuring that it would be safer to move the roof when the ground was cleared and the day a bit warmer, we returned to demolition work.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Cutting_up_Debris_5.jpg
Finally, in February, we had warmer weather, mild winds, a bright sunny day, and a 40 ton crane on hand to move the roof. We helped the operator rig the crane (never wanting to turn down a chance to learn something new) and spreaders, and with a pair of stress tested chains on loan from a friend, we knocked out two sheets of plywood from the roof and rigged the roof for the move.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/GETTING_READY_TO_MOVE_THE_ROOF_5.jpg
We had an operator from the crain company explain how we could fabricate a pair of 6x12, 24-foot long beams, to strap under the roof trusses and swing the roof from its original spot, to a new spot 24 feet south and 12 foot east. No-one at the club had ever done this. It was quite the pucker moment.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Setting_the_Pavillion.jpg
Now, I don't know how many people have had the opportunity to move a roof but I know I can check that off from my list of "must do before I die" list
The "modular facility" (I hate to say trailers) came for a song -- SHIPPING INCLUDED! The trailer movers were great people. The first half came via a woman driver who really did a slick job driving around various boat and buildings.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Deliver_of_the_back_half.jpg
We decided to keep half the structure open, reserving half to be the "Great Room," that is, the main meeting room.
Great room pic will be here.
In the other half, we decided to frame that up to have the day room (where the children usually play as we hold meetings, the executive room, bathrooms, closets and water heater closet, the bar area, and a kitchen and pantry.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Inside_Framing.jpg
Since then, we built various walls to have a day-room for our kids, an executive room, men's and women's restrooms, a wet bar, pantry, and kitchen.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Inside_under_construction.jpg
We saved half the structure for our "great room." The main meeting room is now ~28'x30'.
Outside, well, we have to work on the facade. One of our members has offered to by vynal, but dang, we just don't have time to put it up.
It is really something to see what we did, on our own, with no FEMA, Fed, or State assistance. Not that other's in the local community didn't help us. A local trash-hauler donated five 30 yard containers and 5 trips to the dump. A local land-fill waived the dumping fee, extending to us the "Hurricane Debris Period" and thus waived the dumping fee. The local Vulcan Quarry provided four HUGE loads of fill to put under our "pavillion." This was the old roof that we moved earlier.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Donated_Fill_5.jpg
Thanks to everyone's hard work, once again, we have a place to hold our
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Interior_Great_Room_A5.jpg
Mother's Day Cookout
picwillbehere
Our Father's Day Cookout
picwillbehere
Our Cruise-to-Nowhere party
picwillbehere
Our Crab Feast
picwillbehere
Our Christmas Party
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Inside_XMAS_2006.jpg
and our Superbowl Party.
I am awed when I consider what we were like right after Isabel
REPEATING THIS PICTURE!
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/After_Isabel_5.jpg
and what we have today!
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/WHAT_WE_HAVE_TODAY.JPEG
Thanks for reading this brag. While I did only a little of the labor, the "plan" was my vision, but only came true because of everyone else and their hard work. Go to http://www.quanticoyc.org/HurricaneIsabelRestorationWork.html and there you can read a week-end by week-end description of the work, and workers. I am really proud about what the club did.
Please visit our website at WWW.QuanticoYC.ORG.
also, as you read the story, please report any broken links to RobertLangDirect@Verizon.net.
Come back occassionally as I update the site, and add pictures. We are still doing finishing work, such as thresholds, the executive room, and permanent stairs.
Níl aon ghaoth ná go séideann cóir do dhuine éigin! from an old Irish proverb.
For nearly 40 years, the Quantico Yacht Club operated aboard the Marine Corps Base Quantico on the Potomac River. Our Clubhouse was actually two, very old, house trailers, with a common peaked roof protecting the seam where they joined. Our "great room" was about 20'x20'.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/QYC_Before_Isabel_49.jpg
In September 2004, Hurricane Isabel pushed a 12 to 14 foot tidal surge up the river. Our Clubhouse was about four feet too low for this, the highest water ever recorded at Quantico. The facility was left with some damage.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/After_Isabel_5.jpg
We found a set of class-rooms in Glouster Virginia, courtesy of AAA Mobile.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Potential_Replacement_in_Glouster_5.jpg
From the front corner you can better see the "class room" use of the modular facility. While the trailers go down the road front half and back half, when set up they have a right and left classroom, with each room having two doors and three windows. As you will see later on, as we divied the inside space into rooms, we had to keep in mind the doors and windows.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Potential_Trailer_Front_View_49.jpg
We put a dollar of earnest money down and waited through a club evaluation of various options. The club adopted the AAA option and we proceeded to clear debris. The one "GOTCHA" we encountered was moving a 64' trailer into the 50' space we had between the old peaked roof and the end of our property -- so, we had to lift the roof.
The first step was to fabricate a pair of 12x6 inch, 28 feet-long, beams. We built the beams by running 2, 12 feet long, 2x12 stock end to end with a short 4 foot long extension, parallel to an identical setup with the short extension at the opposite end, with scrap 2x4 from the old trailer walls, sandwiched between the 12x12s.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Lifting_Beam_5.jpg
[Also, looking back at it, someone noted that we had three pairs of beam, more or less ready to go, as part of the old trailer frames, and asked, why didn't we use these? That is a fair question. We used the wood for several reasons. First, the weight of the steel beams made the manipulation of them difficult. The beams were part of the trailer floor and required that we tear out the trailers before we could get to them. By using the wood, we were able to mount the beams while we had the old roofs, giving us a a safe platform right under our feet. We did not have to work 12 feet off the ground.]
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Up_in_the_rafters.jpg
Once we had the beams set up under the roof trusses, we had to place six poles in the ground to carry the roof, one it was moved. This was a pretty straight foward process. We used basic highschool geometry to measure cross corners and set our square. We then dug a deep hole and poured a footer. Then, after ensuring that our 20-feet 6x6 poles were the same size, we used a simple water level and a marked each pole 10 feet from it's bottom. In theory, with each mark at the same level, the top of each pole was supposed to be the same height.
Pic of water level and mark here.
With the poles set, cold weather moved in and we needed to choose between moving a roof, with all the debris on the ground and our workers standing in the cold, holding lines and, for a good part of the event, watching what was happening. or, continue the hard, body warming tear out. Figuring that it would be safer to move the roof when the ground was cleared and the day a bit warmer, we returned to demolition work.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Cutting_up_Debris_5.jpg
Finally, in February, we had warmer weather, mild winds, a bright sunny day, and a 40 ton crane on hand to move the roof. We helped the operator rig the crane (never wanting to turn down a chance to learn something new) and spreaders, and with a pair of stress tested chains on loan from a friend, we knocked out two sheets of plywood from the roof and rigged the roof for the move.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/GETTING_READY_TO_MOVE_THE_ROOF_5.jpg
We had an operator from the crain company explain how we could fabricate a pair of 6x12, 24-foot long beams, to strap under the roof trusses and swing the roof from its original spot, to a new spot 24 feet south and 12 foot east. No-one at the club had ever done this. It was quite the pucker moment.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Setting_the_Pavillion.jpg
Now, I don't know how many people have had the opportunity to move a roof but I know I can check that off from my list of "must do before I die" list
The "modular facility" (I hate to say trailers) came for a song -- SHIPPING INCLUDED! The trailer movers were great people. The first half came via a woman driver who really did a slick job driving around various boat and buildings.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Deliver_of_the_back_half.jpg
We decided to keep half the structure open, reserving half to be the "Great Room," that is, the main meeting room.
Great room pic will be here.
In the other half, we decided to frame that up to have the day room (where the children usually play as we hold meetings, the executive room, bathrooms, closets and water heater closet, the bar area, and a kitchen and pantry.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Inside_Framing.jpg
Since then, we built various walls to have a day-room for our kids, an executive room, men's and women's restrooms, a wet bar, pantry, and kitchen.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Inside_under_construction.jpg
We saved half the structure for our "great room." The main meeting room is now ~28'x30'.
Outside, well, we have to work on the facade. One of our members has offered to by vynal, but dang, we just don't have time to put it up.
It is really something to see what we did, on our own, with no FEMA, Fed, or State assistance. Not that other's in the local community didn't help us. A local trash-hauler donated five 30 yard containers and 5 trips to the dump. A local land-fill waived the dumping fee, extending to us the "Hurricane Debris Period" and thus waived the dumping fee. The local Vulcan Quarry provided four HUGE loads of fill to put under our "pavillion." This was the old roof that we moved earlier.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Donated_Fill_5.jpg
Thanks to everyone's hard work, once again, we have a place to hold our
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Interior_Great_Room_A5.jpg
Mother's Day Cookout
picwillbehere
Our Father's Day Cookout
picwillbehere
Our Cruise-to-Nowhere party
picwillbehere
Our Crab Feast
picwillbehere
Our Christmas Party
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Inside_XMAS_2006.jpg
and our Superbowl Party.
I am awed when I consider what we were like right after Isabel
REPEATING THIS PICTURE!
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/After_Isabel_5.jpg
and what we have today!
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzexrekd/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/WHAT_WE_HAVE_TODAY.JPEG
Thanks for reading this brag. While I did only a little of the labor, the "plan" was my vision, but only came true because of everyone else and their hard work. Go to http://www.quanticoyc.org/HurricaneIsabelRestorationWork.html and there you can read a week-end by week-end description of the work, and workers. I am really proud about what the club did.
Please visit our website at WWW.QuanticoYC.ORG.
