Plywood Boat Building Blog

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.

Monday, 16 August 2010

The Decision has been - Ply instead of Alu

I am convinced by Dudley Dix's designs. Today I ordered drawings for a 23 feet keelboat design with vertical dropkeel. The Didi 23.
I did hesitate a while because of the quite low cabin headroom of 1.3 m.
But then I decided to increase the headroom to 1,65 after consultation with Dudley Dix.

Plywood Boat Building Blog

Monday, 16 August 2010

The Decision has been - Ply instead of Alu

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