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.

Monday, 30 December 2013

Rudder Blade

The rudder blade is not made from solid timber as suggested by Dudley Dix but from ply restovers. In order to make it not too heavy it is hollow inside. The outside of the blade is carbon coated. I had good luck and got a fitting restover carbon fabric restover quite cheap. The photos show the production steps executed during December.

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Unknown12 June 2014 at 12:10
These pictures are amazing! I found some more on this website: http://www.nauticexpo.com/boat-manufacturer/rudder-blade-19644.html
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