The salon is finished in the shell - basically. The rest are painters and parquet recliner, but not this year.
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, 21 December 2014
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Interior Joinery
Meanwhile it is to cold for working with epoxy outside the hull. Therefore I will focus on interior joinery until spring. Due to a tarp over the hull, it is possible to warm up the interior about 10 °C above ambient temperature with 1 kW heating power.
Two weeks ago I started the work on the V-berths in the bow section.
Two weeks ago I started the work on the V-berths in the bow section.
To capture the irregular hull contour I tinkered first a template out of cardboard. |
Then I transferred the template on the plywood. |
After a few minor adaptation work the bench locker cover fits. |
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