Anybody can build his own boat stitch and glue is the best way for amateurs to build their own boats. a lot of plans for all kinds of boats are available from different designers and the canoe hiawatha 16 is a design by bateau.com and is built with the stitch and glue method. the plan cost 30$ and is available as a downloadable pdf, it. The devlin “stitch and glue” method is a superior way to build a wooden boat. it has been developed and refined here at devlin designing boat builders for almost 40 years, and has been adopted by other segments of the wooden boat industry.. The stitch and glue boatbuilding method is an easy way for a beginner to make a plywood boat in a nutshell stitch and glue boatbuilding has 4 major steps. plywood parts of the boat are measured and cut according to plans..
This new (2005) stitch and glue tutorial shows the building of a typical small boat, the fl12. the fl12 is a new version of our succesful fl11. a prototype was built to test the new assembly method.. Fig. 1 a plywood layout, in the plans, illustrates how the various parts are obtained from standard sheets of plywood. careful cutting is required and all scrap should be saved. fig. 2 cut out plywood parts are preferably coated with epoxy before assembling. nextnext. Stitch-and-glue boat building, along with the development of epoxy and modern mahogany marine plywood, has revolutionized and revitalized wooden boat building.. this method of boat building is not only stronger, lighter, and faster than traditional wooden boat building, but it also takes far less skill..
