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 27 July 2019

New Motor Jacker Installed

Provisional support for the motor shaft

During the first test drives last year turns out that the Motor mount bracket was to weak. The 500 mm long plank of 22 mm thickness which has been used as mount bracket, twisted dangerously already at 2 kW motor power.