Despite of Kurt Reinke's self-convinced and unobjective way of representing the subject matter in his Book "Yachtbau", I almost think a 10 m aluminum yacht with ASY-twin-keels might be the right decision for me and our tide-dependent home-waters with dry-falling marinas.
I am going to order study plans .
www.reinke-yacht.de
This blog will take you along the different steps of building a 23 foot dropkeel sailboat. The DIDI 23 is one of the available designs for the amateur builder designed by Dudley Dix. The boat is built as a radius chine trailer sailer from plywood with bulb dropkeel.
ABOUT ME
I am 64, married, have two adult children and working as engineer for rf techniques at a physical research centre of the Helmholtz Association. I live close to the Elbe river in a suburb of Hamburg, Germany.