Showing posts with label Didi 29 Retro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Didi 29 Retro. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Didi 29 Retro Progress
Bruce Mierke is building a Didi 29 Retro in Murphy, North Carolina. Bruce is a professional boatbuilder, building her for himself and progressing nicely. He has now completed the hull and it will be turned over in a few weeks.
This design is based on the Didi 26, modified to create a more classic image. Carrying a choice of rigs, the squaretop Marconi rig below and two gaff rigs further down the page. It is a radius chine plywood design, round bilge from plywood and can be built from plans or a CNC kit. Although Bruce is a professional builder, I developed this construction method primarily for amateurs and they have built many boats to this range of designs.
Here are the latest photos from Bruce, showing the beautiful standard of finish that he has achieved.
For more info on this and our other designs, visit http://dixdesign.com/
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This design is based on the Didi 26, modified to create a more classic image. Carrying a choice of rigs, the squaretop Marconi rig below and two gaff rigs further down the page. It is a radius chine plywood design, round bilge from plywood and can be built from plans or a CNC kit. Although Bruce is a professional builder, I developed this construction method primarily for amateurs and they have built many boats to this range of designs.
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| Marconi rig of Didi 29 Retro |
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| Beautiful hull finish. |
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| Two gaff rigs, racing at left and cruising at right. |
For more info on this and our other designs, visit http://dixdesign.com/
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Wickedly Accurate Didi 29 Retro Project in North Carolina
I designed the Didi 29 Retro for Mike Kopman, a professional charter skipper who lives in my hometown of Hout Bay, South Africa. Mike's concept was to adapt the Didi 26 cruiser/racer design to a more traditional concept, with counter stern, bulwarks, boxy trunk cabin and a big gaff rig, for participation in the Caribbean classic racing circuit. Mike received the first CNC kit to this design, supplied by CKD Boats in South Africa. The second kit went to Bruce Mierke of Murphy, North Carolina, which he ordered from our list of plywood kits.
Mike Kopman has been building his workshop ahead of the boatbuilding project, so that hasn't started yet. Bruce Mierke started his boat a few months ago and is moving along very well. These photos are of Bruce's build. He began with some smaller items ahead of starting the hull, so I am showing those first.
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Mike Kopman has been building his workshop ahead of the boatbuilding project, so that hasn't started yet. Bruce Mierke started his boat a few months ago and is moving along very well. These photos are of Bruce's build. He began with some smaller items ahead of starting the hull, so I am showing those first.
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| Rudder |
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| Foil of lifting keel |
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| Beaver-tail ballast bulb |
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| Carbon spars for gaff rig. |
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| Bulkheads and framework set up on building stocks. |
This design has a spade rudder that is installed in a cassette so that it can be lifted out through the cockpit for trailing or shallow moorings. Bruce has added a motor well also, in which he will run a Torqueedo electric outboard. The casings that contain the outboard well and rudder cassette can be seen on the photo above and others in this series.
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| Bottom panels installed, rudder cassette and Torqueedo test-fitted |
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| Radiused section of skin completed. |
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| Aft view, with hardwood-veneered transom |
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| Plug of engine well and rudder cassette in place. |
Bruce has modified my rudder cassette design to allow some steerage with the rudder partially raised to assist when approaching shallow moorings with the keel raised.
He is very happy with the quality and accuracy of the kit that we supplied, describing it as "wicked accurate".
For info on our full range of designs, please visit http://dixdesign.com/
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