Sunday 15 July 2012

Andy fairs his Didi Mini Transat hull

In reality, the hulls made from the Dix Design  www.dixdesign.com Radius Chine process, require no fairing at all if you have followed the build process correctly. All we need to do is fill some of the laminated radius and some spot fills on the hull sides where panels join, there is no fairing required on the hull skins at all, so much so that to apply a belt sander to the marine plys will damage the surface.




This is a great shot of the bottom of the Didi Mini Transat we sent as a kit to RD in California, check how the  hull bottom flats blend into the radius, there are no bumps, its just so easy to do, even for first timers.



This picture was labled Fairing but as we can see there is just light filler which was probably made with our epoxy and micro ballooon/fumed silica mix. This is easy to long board off, a belt sander may be too strong for such work.

Easy!


This is the inside of the same boat, we can supply boats from small to large in the same build system, all bulkheads, hull and deck flats are CNC cut for you. In the case of the Didi Mini Transat Mk2 we even supply and cut the boats interior, thats the bunks and ballast water tanks. The Didi Mini Cruise can use the same interior, in the case of the cruise version the ballast water tanks can become storage lockers.

Roy