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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, 26 October 2013
Fore Bottom Segments Planked
The ply is stiched to the backbone by using copper wire from electric cables. The shafted joint between bulkheads C and D is fixed by some loads I had culled me on the fly.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Lower Side Of The Keel Shaft Before Planking
The upper photo shows the lower side of the keel shaft after stringers and bulkheads have been faired and are prepared for planking now.
The lower photo shows the thickness off the coating inside the keel shaft. The epoxy-copper-oxide is about 1mm thick. As scale bar one can use the thickness of the 12mm-7-layer plywood of the shaft.
The lower photo shows the thickness off the coating inside the keel shaft. The epoxy-copper-oxide is about 1mm thick. As scale bar one can use the thickness of the 12mm-7-layer plywood of the shaft.
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