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, 17 February 2013

Turning Back To The Keel Foil

Variety is fun. Therefore I turn back to the keel foil. It is time to coat it by carbon fabric. I have chosen carbon instead of glass fabric because of the higher tensile strength. My keel foil is 350 mm longer than the original one designed by Dudley Dix. The higher bending moment requires stronger material.

Working time been invested: 495 hours