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.

Saturday, 26 September 2015

Cabintop Filled

The cabintop is filled with one layer HIGH BUILD EPOXY FILLER from Yachtcare

Thursday, 24 September 2015

Cabintop Glass Coated

Glass coating of the cabintop has been finished. My wife just smothing the last piece of peel ply.