Segue is a Didi Cruise Mini, designed by Dudley Dix, inspired by his Mini 6.5, a single-handed ocean racer. (The rig and sail plan on Segue are a bit more moderate than the racing version and the cabin is 4 inches taller. Segue is beamy, providing great form stability and capability to plane off the wind.)
There are two rudders canted at 15 degrees from the vertical, which help maintain control when this beamy boat heels.
Segue is built from 6 mm Ocoume plywood laid over 8 mm Ocoume plywood ring frames spaced approximately 25 inches along the length of the boat. Sitka spruce stringers ¾ inch by 1 ¼ inch run fore-and aft approximately 10 inches apart and are let into the frames. The combination of frames and stringers with plywood glued over them provides adequate stiffness for hull and deck and is very light. The hull at the turn of the bilge is cold molded from two layers of 3 mm plywood where a hard chine would otherwise be. Hull, deck, and house are sheathed in 6 oz E-glass set in epoxy.
The boat has a lifting daggerboard in a trunk, with 880-pound torpedo-shaped lead bulb at the bottom of the daggerboard, providing great stability.
Segue has a fully battened main and a small jib. She goes upwind well. Segue also has a 6 foot long bowsprit that can be positioned at an angle to fore-and-aft. She has an asymmetrical spinnaker. She really comes alive off the wind.
Below decks, there is a spacious vee-berth forward and two quarter berths aft, with a countertop for food preparation…although cooking is best done in the cockpit.
Segue was built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 2011.
Segue’s LWL and LOA are both 6.5 meters- just over 21feet. The hull is the same as Dudley Dix’s mini 6.5.
The bowsprit is readily removed. It attaches at the stem and pivots, controlled by lines. This is a great rig for distance sailing but perhaps a bit complicated for around the buoys racing.
She has no trailer and lives in the water.
Segue is like a sailing dinghy with a keel that keeps it from capsizing. To get full benefit from her performance capability, the owner has minimized internal features. So camping and cooking gear are brought aboard when needed and left ashore when day-sailing.
The asking price, originally $14,500, has been sharply reduced to only $5,000, due to impending move. The boat is located at Port Ludlow Marina, near Port Townsend, WA.
Contact : David Blessing blessingdl@netscape.net
