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.

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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, 10 March 2013

Coming Back To The Bulb Slabs

The bulb slabs have to be covered. That will be the next task. At first the warty surface are filled. The feedthroughs are temporary sealed with wine bottle cork.

Then the slabs are glass coated using the WEST-System vacuum bagging system.

Finally a layer epoxy with Cu₂O-filler against fouling. Ready!

Working time been invested: 522 hours