If you're building a Mini 6.5, come to Phil's Foils for your foils.
So you're thinking about sailing this little boat across oceans? Don't
take a chance on your foils!
Building a Didi Mini (Dix Design)? -
Phil's Foils is now a licensed supplier for Dudley Dix's designs. Please write for a quotation.
Design: DidiMiniR
Rudder
If you're building a Didi Mini you'll
want to get your foils from Phil. Shown here is the rudder -
you'll need two!
Price (each):
Price as shown is for Dudley Dix's standard design of eglass laminate over
a red cedar core.
Want to save a bit of weight? Add $250 for foam leading and
trailing edges, and carbon fiber laminate.
The pair shown here are going all the way to South Africa. Awlgrip
finish on the heads, and epoxy primer on the wetted sections.
At far right is a carbon tiller also done for a DidiMini.
Here are two rudders from a batch of six that went to Italy.
Laminated in eglass over red cedar.
Here's a set for a Zero built to the customer's specifications of longer
chord length / shorter aspect ratio. Delivered laminated but not
faired or painted. Carbon over foam with a cedar stringer.
Great care is taken when jigging up the gudgeons to keep everything centered
and spaced correctly.
Below is a set of rudder cores from a French design (drawings provided by the
customer); milled out of western
red cedar - he'll be taking them from here to completion.
The same rudders later came back for a retro-fit to carbon fiber gudgeons:
This project was something a bit different: the customer wanted a 1/10th
scale model of the mini he was building (to be used as a promotional tool at
boatshows). Milled out of corecell, its shown here in primer (next to the
3d cad drawing he sent me)
