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.

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Stem Bar

The stem bar ist made from four layers 10mm ply.

Friday, 26 August 2011

Scarfing Two Sheets of Ply for Bulkhead G

The dimensions of Bulkhead G didn´t fit one plywood sheet. Therefore it was nessesary to scarf two 2500mm x 1220mm sheets.

Working time been invested: 72 hours