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| Provisional support for the motor shaft |
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| Support installed to the motor shaft |
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| Bracket for the new motor jacker |
| New motor jacker installed |
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| Motor in lifted position |
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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| Provisional support for the motor shaft |
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| Support installed to the motor shaft |
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| Bracket for the new motor jacker |
| New motor jacker installed |
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| Motor in lifted position |
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| EPIFANES Epoxy-HB-Coat of the under water hull prepared for antifouling coating |
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| Pinting the first of two layers EPIFANES Interim-Coat |
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| Pinting the first of two layers AWN Hard-Antifouling |
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| Antifouling coating finished |