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 June 2012

Shaping the Keel Foil

Sunday, 10 June 2012

First Stringers Set in Place

Working time been invested: 256 hours

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Glueing Keel Foil

In between, I dedicate myself again to the keel foil. I glue the stainless steel rods for fixing the lead bulb into the foil segments. After that I bring the foil segments for glueing into a specially prepared fixture in line.