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| 1st layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating |
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| 2nd layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating |
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| 3rd layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating ... |
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| ... 5th layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating ... |
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| ... 7th and last layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating |
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.
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| 1st layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating |
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| 2nd layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating |
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| 3rd layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating ... |
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| ... 5th layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating ... |
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| ... 7th and last layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating |
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| 1st layer Epifanes Epoxy HB-Coat has been grinded ... |
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| ... and filled. Afterwards 2nd layer Epifanes Epoxy HB-Coat has been applied |
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| 3rd layer Epifanes Epoxy HB-Coat has been applied |
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| 3rd layer Epifanes Epoxy HB-Coat has been grinded and is preapared for next layer. |
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| 4th layer Epifanes PU-Primer has been applied |
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| Painted starboard berth-stowage |
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| 48 V, 50 Ah Starboard battery-bank in berth-stowage |
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| 48 V, 600 W starboard charger unit below companionway |