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.

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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, 14 September 2019

Traveler for the Self-Tacking Jib Installed

Traveler for the self-tacking jib installed

Waiting for the sails. The sailmaker says he needs another 2 to 3 weeks. On November 9th the season comes to the end :-(