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spend time in the Intracoastal Waterway, where the fixed bridges limit her rig height.
Laid out for a couple to cruise very comfortably with occasional guests, she even has a gymset built into her aft cabin. Her saloon is compact but complemented by the more sociable pilothouse with panoramic views. This area can be sealed off from the accommodation below for security and in the event of a pilothouse window breaking in violent seas.
Her cockpit is set above the aft deck rather than recessed into it, to attain headroom aft. Her central helm seat stores the liferaft and is flanked by a pair of gimballed "Rocking Horse" chairs.
Her rig is set up for short-handed sailing, designed around in-boom furling on main and mizzen and roller furling on headsails. Most sail controls can be led to electric winches aft and on the pilothouse roof.
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LOA 17.00m LOD 15.25m LWL 14.00m Beam 4.49m Draft 1.98m Displacement 19435 kg |
Ballast 6000kg Working sail 122.35 sq.m Light air sail 158.20 sq.m Water 1075 litres Diesel 1850 litres |
My radius chine plywood range started with the Didi 38, to which I built my own yacht "Black Cat" to prove and fine-tune the system. Five sisterships are now under construction. Next came the Didi 34, now also with five in build. The downsizing trend in the concept has continued and I now have a Didi 26 nearing design completion. This one is to the Australian Level Class 800 trailer-sailer rules and will be available to build either as a stripped racer or with weekending accommodation. See the next issue of "Dix's Doings" for more information. More plywood designs?
Enquiries continue to come in re other concepts in plywood. When combined with epoxy, plywood forms an excellent basis for an economical, light and strong structure. Wood remains the material most suited to amateur builders and its combination with epoxy and radius chine construction is reestablishing its popularity. Watch this space for new developments in dinghies and cruising multihulls coming onto the board. Power catamaran ferry
Recent collaboration between this office and powerboat man Nob van Niekerk, resulted in the new 22m power cat under construction by Nelson Girdlestone near the graving dock in Table Bay Harbour. She is based on a standard Bobkat hull onto which the aluminium superstructure, designed by DDYD, is being built. More such co-operative design work will be coming in the future.
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