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Welcome to Our Web site!
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!
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| 01 Feb 10. Has it
been a month?
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Since the last update? It's been a busy month,
but not so on the boat. I did manage to find time to run the mast wires
and anchor them at the top. I then attached the all the stuff ( nav lt,
strobe lt, windex, vhf ant, wind sensors ) to the top of the mast and
hooked up the wires. All went well until I stuck the windex in place and
found that it would not clear the strobe light. I had made sure it would
clear the antenna, but forgot how high the strobe sticks up.
See Jan Pix. |
| 01 Jan 09. Happy New Stubs!
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Sanded smooth the mast where the old stubs
were and put on the new spreader to mast attachments.
See Jan Pix. |
| 28 Dec 09. Happy Holidays!
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Attached the keel chainplates this last couple
of weeks as I have managed to find some time free. Vacuumed out the boat
and cleaned up a lot of the mess inside. Attached the floorboards to the
hull and started to figure out how to mount the cooler and port-a-potty.
Also cut the stubs off the mast. |
| 14 Dec 09. Odds and ends.
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Have been working on a bunch of different
things this past two weeks. Cut the boom to length and inserted the end
fitting. made up a bunch of foam plugs for the mast. Drilled the holes,
made G-10 inserts and epoxied them in place for the chainplates to attach
the keel controls.
See Dec Pix. |
| 29 Nov 09. Mast wires.
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So I got the data bus figured out. I hooked up
my laptop to the NMEA bus and could read the data streams. The GPS is
putting out good data. I had miss wired the lines going to the A/P head
and it now can read the GPS data, it just does not know what to do with
it. The VHF still does not see the GPS data and the AIS box is completely
out to lunch. Waiting to hear back from their tech people. So with that at
a standstill I got all the wires together that will run in the mast and
tied them in a neat bundle, using an arcane aviation method of tie sting.
No plastic zip ties to chaff on the halyards.
See Nov Pix. |
| Past build progress
continues here.
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 Latest build photos.
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Days Schedule: |
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| My work schedule and job duties have changed for the 5th time this year.
I will be working on the boat in the mornings before I go into work.
Hopefully this new schedule will allow me more time to finish the boat
then I've had since spring. Please call my cell number before dropping by: 602-326-3381
Or Email me. Thanks. |
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A scale comparison of the Didi Mini and the J/24. |
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