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.

Sunday, 25 October 2020

Back in Winter Storage

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  The boat is back in winter storage. There are a lot of tasks waiting to be carried out yet. As I did last year, I will again create a lis...
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Saturday, 22 August 2020

Tiller Pilot Installed

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  After the problems with setting sails described in the penultimate post I installed a tiller pilot today. Unfortunately, I haven't ha...
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Saturday, 15 August 2020

Sailing on the Elbe in Light Winds

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We tacked against the ebb current at 2 Beaufort and had to start the engine from time to time in order not to lose too much height.
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Sunday, 9 August 2020

Single-Handed Sailing

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After rigging the boat last Sunday and changed the bent turnbuckle. I really wanted to sail this Sunday. Unfortunately, no fellow sailor cou...
Sunday, 2 August 2020

Ready to Sail (almost)

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On weekend we stepped the mast, sorted the sheets and hallyards to new installed clutches, attached the sails, a lazy jack together with a ...
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Sunday, 26 July 2020

Back in the Water

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Friday, 17 July 2020

Antifouling Peels Off

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My son discovered some small white spots on the port side next to the keel. A closer inspection showed that the antifouling is peeling off. ...
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