Stitch-and-glue construction, along with the development of epoxy and modern mahogany marine plywood, has revolutionized and revitalized wooden boat building. stitch-and-glue boat building is not only stronger, lighter, and faster than traditional wooden boat building, but it also takes far less skill.. The inspiration to build the ultimate hard chine, stitch and glue kayak was all too easy. to instill a plywood kayak with some of the nice characteristics of its wood strip cousins took some creative tweaking but the effort paid off and i just couldn't be happier with the cruiser that was born.. The plans predate cad panel development software so the shapes are extremely simple in some cases. the one sheet boat. the one sheet boat, or osb, is an outgrowth of the stitch and glue technique. the osb is a boat that can be built using a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood (1.22 m
