Plywood Boat Plans Australia | Dylan Bailey Interviews Dudley Dix

Plywood Boat Plans Australia

Dylan Bailey is a marine surveyor and member of the committee of the Metal Boat Society. He recently interviewed me about my background in boats, designing, boat building and sailing. The interview was for the Metal Boat Society magazine Metal Boat Quarterly and Dylan has also posted it on his own blog. Anyone who wants to read it, please visit Dylans blog at http://metalboatsurveyor.blogspot.com/2015/02/interview-with-yacht-designer-dudley-dix.html.

Dylan is also the owner of the prototype Little Creek 47 "Flutterby", which was built by his father Howdy Bailey of Howdy Bailey Yacht Services in the 1980s. She is a shallow draft steel cruiser with swing keel, twin rudders and staysail schooner rig.

Little Creek 47 "Flutterby".

"Flutterby" on Chesapeake Bay.

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Boat Building Plans And Kits | Dix 470 Catamaran Kit Build in UK

Boat Building Plans And Kits

Kevin Bream is the owner of Exocetus Catamaran Kits in UK, the company that he formed to develop kits for our plywood catamaran designs and to market them to builders, both professional and amateur. To be sure that he does a proper job of this, he is building the Dix 470 himself, to test the fit of all parts and to develop systems to ease the whole construction process.

The number of plywood components in a boat like this is massive. Just the thought of figuring the size and shape for each one, then cutting it out before fitting it in place on the boat, can make the project being contemplated seem very intimidating. Anything that can be done to reduce the number of hours in the build and the flow of elbow grease from builder into the boat is worthy of consideration. It reduces building time for any kind of builder. For a boatyard it increases profits and for the amateur it gets him afloat and sailing sooner.

Kevin Bream has one hull completed and is now working on the second. Lessons that he learned while building the first hull have been put into making a better product. Aside from that, anyone who buys a kit from Exocetus will benefit from a product that has been built by the supplier himself. Who could provide better backup support to the builders than he who has done the development, the cutting and the building before them?

Here are recent photos of the project.

The workshop of Exocetus Catamaran Kits, first hull on the right.

Completed Dix 470 starboard hull, waiting for its mate.

Self-jigging building stocks, bolted to the concrete slab.

Interlocking bulkheads & backbone assembled, stringers in progress.

Daggerboard casing. This boat can have cruising keels or daggerboards.

Skeleton of port hull, ready for skin. The jigsaw joints are visible at panel edges.

Skeleton with side skin being dry-fitted to test for proper fit.

Stern detail of starboard hull, showing swim platform.

Exocetus Catamaran Kits can also supply similar kits for the bigger sister, the DH550.

To see more about these designs, as well as others of all types and materials, please visit http://dixdesign.com/

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