We have received confirmation from Wooden Boat Magazine that they will be featuring this construction method in their excellent publication within the next 6 issues. With each new design which we do in this method we fine-tune it or adapt it a bit more to offer more versatile products. The latest ones are moving us deeper into kitboat territory, the goal being to enable commercial kit suppliers to sell flatpack kits of all components ready for assembly. These designs now include a 22 page guide on the procedures of building boats to this construction method. This will be expanded to accommodate new designs.
Standard packages are for construction from plans and offsets in the traditional manner.
Being computer faired and very simple in hull form, they do not need to be lofted, only for the bulkheads to be drawn full size from the supplied diagrams. CAD files are available as an optional extra, to allow the bulkheads to be plotted or CNC cut at the builder's location. Another optional extra is for us to supply the full size patterns. Even when bonded and protected with costly epoxies, it remains well below the material cost of GRP composite construction. The Didi 26 design is complete and the first boats are being built in Sweden and Australia.