This boat is ideal for a first time boat builder with basic carpentry experience.

Boat building glue. Epoxy vs resorcinol or other adhesives for boat building. Everbuild D4 wood adhesive is a solvent free industrial grade D4 waterproof wood glue with none of the safety issues associated with conventional isocyanate containing polyurethane D4 adhesives. Let the plywood panels take their natural fair shape.

Ad Gordys Marine now has a service center in Fox Lake. Today we cover Build a Boat with GlueJesse Speelt. What glue is usually taken for wooden boat construction.

Call Gordys today for any of your boat repair needs. Stitch and glue boat building is a quick and fun way to build boats using shaped plywood panels to build strong lightweight boats. Check out customer photos of FRS-15 builds HERE.

The Stitch and Glue method of boat construction is one of the most popular methods of plywood boat construction today. The stitch-and-glue construction method is the easiest way to build a boat as tens of thousands of amateur boatbuilders will testify. This week we made our first boats.

This method is impractical for hulls designed for cold-mold or diagonal plywood strips. Stitch and glue building is the name given to boat building using plywood sheets held together by copper wire string cable ties or some other method. Boat building in which molds define the hull shape in stitch and glue the hull panels define the shape.

It comes in squeezable bottles for easy application. Another major difference with wooden boat building is that the framing of a stitch and glue boat is made of fiberglass. Just as in production fiberglass boats in our designs the chine keel bow etc are made of fiberglass.