Building The EC12

The Building of an EC12

This section is the prime reason for the website. It is the repository of all that we have dealt with, gathered from all over and hopefully presented in an organized way. It is the desire that the site evolve and change as we see and learn more. We are not the last word in building procedure, choice of equipment or selection of dimensions. We have just brought it together.

If you are looking for general browsing on a phase of building, choose interested links on the left. There will be many sub-pages to those.  If you are looking for specific information it might be better to use the Subjects & Search page. This could bring you closer to the item. If you prefer to use "key words" in your quest the search engine will present possible sources. Aside from these tools, there are links nearby. Please note that while the links on this site are underlined, the majority are in the same color as the text. Your mouse will identify them. And, there are a lot of them.

The Electronic Checklist  (EC) is the core of the building section. Hopefully, it has been designed to assist all levels of building expertise. This is a linked building process that will take you through building phases while exploring most that we have tried in each. You will be given choices in how you want the boat to be equipped and then follow a path along that decision. It will carry you from the planning and ordering of equipment and materials, through the pre-tuning of the rig and onto the water.

If you are new to the class or to building a boat, do not be overwhelmed by the volume of this site. The building process itself is not difficult. The majority of the material here are the reasoning thoughts toward the process. If you have been down this road before, just get to the heart of it.

Update November 2007

The above was written in 1999 when there was no Internet media site with EC12 building information. And like stated above seeing in the site evolve the time has come for this to be a serious effort. The sailing season this year found new ideas and attitudes in the building of these models. Most of this was direct from the growing desire to have a good and reasonably priced racing boat. Likewise, the experience of the last 8 years has brought the realization that options in equipment and building is not a good idea. Like the Marines have coined, we all want to be the best we can be. The base for that is a good competitive boat and we here at the Delta MYC shop have a very good idea of what the modern EC12 should be. We are going to move with this in mind and show you what the yacht should be so that when you enter the mix on the water you do so at your own risk.

The building will move far faster than the content entries to this site. You will see in the EC some of the new and some of the old as revisions move forward till well into late 2008.

Enjoy the Cruise