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.

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Timber Roughly Shaped

This will be once the keel foil.

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Timber for Building the Keel Foil

Since mid-October, it is too cold outside to work with epoxy.
Therefore I will build the keel foil in my warm cellar now.

I have spent some time wondering what could be the best timber for the keel foil. Ultimately, I decided to use Sapele as recommended by Dudley Dix.