You need about 4-5 sheets of plywood to build it. about 10mm for the bottom and 6.5 mm for the sides. update 11th january 2018: today i have sold this boat to a local dive center.. Depending on the size of your workshop and the tools available to you, you may decide to have the store cut the 4x8 sheet of plywood for you (as we did) - just make sure they cut it right (as we did not) - it will save you trimming and increase you freeboard later on.. Plywood is one of the easily available materials and compared to boats made up of other materials, the procedure for building plywood boats is much simpler. at the same time it is cost-effective too. ★ before you start with the actual process of building the boats, you will need to assemble the materials required for the same..
Im about to start restoration of a 38ft cat and it currently has a 6inch diameter alloy back beam which i want to cut out and replace with a plywood box beam which incorporates the traveller, tillers, seating and central mainsheet winch mount.. The boat is made from just one sheet of cheap construction plywood. i made a little video of the build if you want to see the process in moving pictures too. video of the one sheet plywood boat. 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..
