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.

Thursday, 23 August 2018

Stepping the Mast

Saturday, 28 July 2018

Launching

Working time been invested: 2940 hours

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Mounting the Bulb Slabs, Part II

Two out of the six M16x1 S/S-bolts are to short for screwing on a nut.

Special nut, machined from 20 mm diameter brass-rod and a reamed M14-nut

The brass-rod has been soldered into the reamed M14-nut

The 3 mm thick washer should distribute the pressure to the lead

All nuts tightened to a torque of 25 Nm

Sunday, 15 July 2018

Mounting the Bulb Slabs, Part I

Friday, 13 July 2018

Inserting the Keel Foil into the Shaft

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Painting the Boat Stripe

The upper edge of the boat stripe is marked on the hull

The boat stripe is grinded

2nd layer of the boat stripe is painted

Finished boat stripe

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Finishing the Hull

1st layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating

2nd layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating

3rd layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating ...

... 5th layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating ...

... 7th and last layer Epifanes PU-DD Yacht Coating

The hull is covered by plastic foil in order to protect it during the following work on deck.

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