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We are building a Dudley Dix designed, CKD Boats kit, of an Open 6.50 Meter or "Mini".

Ours will have the canting keel and water ballast.

We live in Phoenix, Arizona USA, and plan to sail it in Southern California costal races,

as well as our local racing and just sailing a fast boat!

News & Progress:   Here is the blow by blow coverage!

Latest Build Photos.

 

   
23 Aug 10. Got the lead out.            
Cut stainless steel all-thread to make the bolts to tie the lead bulb halves together and tie into the keel strut. Set up the 2 halves of the bulb to fit the keel strut to the bulb. Managed to get one braced on the skateboard and the other high enough off the floor to slide the other under it, with out dropping it on my fingers or toes.

See Aug Pix.

10 Aug 10. Where's the boatshop?          
Between having to work the overnight shift and taking vacation time, not much has been done this past couple of months. After prying the truck out of the garage and setting the boatshop back up, we are slowing getting back to work. Now were was I?
08 Jun 10 Paint the pole red.          
Primer painted and final paint coated the jockey poles this past week. While watching the paint dry, I installed the sheaves in both ends of the boom and lashed on the the mainsheet block and traveler blocks to the car. 

See Jun Pix

23 May 10 More rotisserie carbon.          
Got out the rotisserie and sanded the jockey poles in prep for paint.
17 May 10 Spreader stuff.          
Have been working on the spreaders. Put on a couple of coats of clear coat and then fitted the inboard ends on to the mast tangs. This was a pain as the tangs were already drilled and I had to line up the new holes.

See May Pix.

15 Apr 10 Tax Day           
Got the Porti-a-Potie in. Finished with the floorboards and cooler/step. Worked on putting a hinge in the inboard end of the bowsprit.

See Apr Pix.

13 Mar 10 More odds & ends.           
So I got the mast wiring completed, crimped on the pins on the wires and inserted them in the connector then mounted the connector. Worked on the supports for the head base and epoxied the cooler base in place, then got a coat of epoxy on all that. Finished with filing off the lifeline tabs off the bow rail and then gave the rail a coat of paint.
11 Mar 10. Stuffing the Mast.          
I have been working in what little free time I've had on the base for the cooler and porta-pottie. Today I put a coat of epoxy on most of the parts. Then I took all the bits of blue foam that I had cut out and stuffed it in the mast. I cut the holes for the mast wires and put the connector on the antenna cable.

See Mar Pix.

13 Feb 10. A pile of rope.           
We got most of our running rigging and the solar panel mount this week from our friends at Third Coast Composites.

So I have been climbing in and out of the boat for the past 2 years by stepping on an overturned milk crate, with the plan that the cooler would go there. So I put the cooler in place and realized that I will need to make a platform for it to sit on. So it's time to break out the saw, scraps of plywood and get creative. I also worked on a fix for the Windex. I pounded off the fitting from the rod and epoxied it to a piece of carbon fiber rod I had left from the keel lay-up. Not only is it longer but it weighs 4.2 grams less.

See Feb Pix.

Past build progress continues here.           

 

 

 
 

Photo Album                                                                          

    Latest build photos.

 

 

 Build Days Schedule:  
 Back on the overnight shift. Will be trying to work on the boat on Sundays & Mondays.

Please call my cell number before dropping by: 602-326-3381

Or Email me.

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A scale comparison of the Didi Mini and the J/24.

 

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