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, 21 April 2012

Bulkheads Aligned

All bulkheads have been positioned and aligned.

Working time been invested: 175 hours

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Move to My Greenhouse Shipyard

Through the winter time I was just able to work little things in my basement boiler room. But now it should really start.
Today I begun to setting up the prepared bulkheads.