Stitch and glue is a simple boat building method which uses plywood panels stitched together, usually with copper wire, and glued together with epoxy resin. this type of construction can eliminate much of the need for frames or ribs.. Stitch and glue construction. stitch and glue is a very simple boat building method which uses plywood panels stitched together with wire and glued together with thickened epoxy resin.. 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 contains both imperial and metric continue.
The boat i chose to build is a 16 footer, but that's way more boat than i need and i don't want to store a 16 foot boat. also it would require attaching three 4x8 ft. pieces of plywood together. i decided to shrink the boat down to a more manageable size, but more on that later.. The advantage of building a stitch and glue boat relative to other methods is that it is fast. the typical builder can complete a stitch and glue boat in about 40 to 60 hours. i first built from plans and sourced the materials locally.. Our stitch and glue boat building videos take you step-by-step through the process of building a stitch and glue boat with boat builder/ designer bill thomas. bill takes you through the process of building his fox double-paddle canoe design..
