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.

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Transom

For building the transom-doubler I gathered all suitable plywood restovers and joined them. After the doubler has been cut out and sanded it looks as nice as cut from an entire plywood board.

Working time been invested: 60 hours

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Bulkheads E, F and I

I am delayed regarding my schedule. I rolled up my sleeves and have been cut out three bulkheads this weekend. Seven of ten bulkheads are finished now.