Going Lightweight

Analising the plan set we took a big and important decision: build the boat in Divinycell foam instead of the original plywood project.

The most important factor: weight! We estimated that the boat in foam would weight much less than the original one. We thought that Divinycell would also be easier to work with and a good quality naval plywood is not so easy or cheap to buy over here.

So the next step was purchase the Divinycell foam, fiberglass, resin and hardener and wait to laminate the first panel!

Getting Things Started

After some months of dreaming and planning we finally decided to build our own sailboat. My friends Bruno and Marcos (both engineers with sail experience) and me (without any experience in sail, homebuilding nor anything else) chose the i550 project because its simple, easy to build and not expensive. After purchaising the plan set,  we analised and decided that it was doable. We were set to enter the game.