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We started the name CKD Boats cc when the very first Didi Mini Transat Mk1 bulkhead kit set was cut, that was over a decade back and the design has since moved to stage three and with chines at the rear of the hull.


With another order in, we are now starting to get the plywood's together for a Didi Mini Transat Mk3, an export order and to a new country for us, making it thirty five countries this far.


The requirement on this order is to supply all the okoume marine grade plywood, this is forty four sheets in total of which we CNC cut thirty seven sheets in total.

Added to this is the timber list for the hull and deck, we are using African Mahogany (khaya) this time, as its strong, light, nice to work with and cost effective.


This will ship by sea and probably via Singapore, we can ship world wide to most destinations.


http://dixdesign.com/didiminiMk3.htm

As I have personally built two Didi Mini Transats  from our kits I can offer plenty of advice on each stage of the building process, this applies to the other radius chine designs from Dix Design as well.

Roy

 

This  design is now active but as yet the materials list has not been provided, so no kit prices just yet.

We have a request for a kit price and will post that as soon as we can.

Roy



The Didi Sport 15 design started a few years ago and has been moving along very slowly, at the pace of the prototype that is being built by a very meticulous builder. He is making a beautiful job of his new boat, hence the slow rate of building.

This design started as a 16ft bigger sister to the Paper Jet. It was to be of similar concept but a twin trapeze skiff for two adults. When he told me that he also planned to use it as a picnic boat for four adults with cooler boxes, I told him that the Paper Jet concept really had no chance to serve all of his requirements. The concept immediately changed to what you see in the Didi Sport 15, as a ballasted sportboat.

The Didi Sport 15 hull is a little sister to the Didi Mini Mk3 and a direct development from it. It has the waterline beam and stability to serve the picnic purpose that the builder wants, able to carry load in a relatively docile manner if reefed down to suit the breeze of the time. In this mode she is really a sportboat with a modern and powerful rig that can be reduced to be more docile if needed. With her full rig of squaretop mainsail, self-tacking jib and asymetrical spinnaker on a retractable bowsprit and launched from a chute, she will be a spirited racer for club Olympic triangle and point-to-point racing. Or just blast back-and-forth across the bay or lake until you wear yourself out from fun and excitement.

She has a covered foredeck above a sealed rapid-draining wet deck, which creates a safe and dry storage area and shelter for small crew. These characteristics make her a good option for raid-type racing events that require carrying one's own stores, camping equipment etc over long distances between camping stops. Hanging a tarp or the mainsail over the boom turns her into a camp cruiser, with a cockpit long and wide enough for a couple of airbeds for a comfortable night anchored or nudged up onto the beach in a sheltered private cove.

http://dixdesign.com/DS15.htm

The picture was pre race start, they are just leaving the entrance to Cape Town Harbour.


The excellent image was taken from the Cape 2 Rio 2017 web site, my thanks to them.

We can do CNC cut kits to this design, also the Didi 26 etc.

Roy