How to Stitch and Glue Boat Building-Glassing Butt Joints 

I now live in Indonesia and don't have access to a lot of the nice stuff like peel ply and fiberglass tape. We do have some very thick tape used for insulating mufflers but it's not really useful for stitch and glue projects. Instead I use a section of ply large enough to fill the space between the ribs and or inside the seat/ buoyancy box, which works pretty well. I've also found that cheap plastic document covers work well in place of peel ply or plastic to cut down on sanding as it lays flat and is reusable. Actually I enjoy the challenges posed by not having everything easily available and have learned a lot by watching local boat builders using very simple tools to quickly create very beautiful and strong working boats from basic tools and materials. Some of these guys even have RU-vid videos and I get a big laugh reading the comments from Americans trying to tell them everything they're doing wrong, which always gets a ❤️ because they can't understand English and just appreciate the comments. But these boats are out on the water and stored on the river bank or beach in a tropical climate every day without any protection. Not to mention the materials cost roughly $100 USD for a 16 footer so imho you can't argue with that.

Good morning my brother. It's great to see a good and interesting video. Great job, I love your fiber boat building video. I hope that in this difficult time, we have the same spirit in achieving success together. Good luck to you and all the best and I look forward to your next visit.

I have a new catamaran and/or trimaran hull design which has been in progress for the last 15 years. It is new/novel and therefore patentable. The hull is asymmetric. Though, for description purposes, it could be described as a variant of a conventional symmetric and a conventional asymmetric hull shape. Since, its shape is symmetrical above the waterline and asymmetrical below the waterline, the result of extending existing lines of a conventional symmetric hull at and below the waterline. This catamaran and/or trimaran hullshape is suitable for a range of craft from SAILING to small and medium POWER craft. SAILING: The hull's benefits for a sailing catamaran or trimaran are; *speed *pointing ability - VMG *no necessity for of dagger or centreboard *simple, flat panel design lines, ease of manufacture. POWER CRAFT: Benefits of an symmetrical hull shape without the negative characteristics such as; *speed of asymmetric shape *more balanced reaction to waves - less broaching *banks in turns To anyone with interest. Cheers

Great video I have learned something today thanks

Awesome tuturial 😎👍

Great Tutorial. Thank you for the extra knowledge and the time, the expenses and the toil I would waste building my stitch and glue plywood sailing dinghy!!!! Efcharisto (THANK YOU in Greek).-

I'm glad I found this video. I am getting ready to scarf panels for a river drift boat and was thinking of doing this method or the type of joint used by Dynamite Payson. This joint looks great and will work. Thank you.

Goodjob bos the sempl bot plywood 👍👍👍

Can this be done with polyester resin? If so, any alteration in the process? Thanl you for the video very informative

Sar very good jobs thanks 👌👌🙏🙏

Do you ALWAYS Pre-Wet Fiber Glass Tape for every type of project? And if not, what determines your decision to NOT Pre-Wet. I'm just wondering if I should Pre-Wet like you did on my NON-Boating project (Converting Chest freezer into cold plunge)

Thanks. To anyone: if you do it with regular woven cloth tape, does the selvaged edges present a problem? Looks like Mathew is using bi-axial tape which I think is not selvaged. Thanks.

Hmm got a question. Got some plans for a 20 foot Jon boat. It says it needs a butt and bulkhead every 4 feet. So this is the butt joint and then you use plywood and hardwood laminated together with epoxy and fiberglass atop this butt joint?

Aloha, what kind of fiberglass tape is that? Has the joint ever come apart before the whole boat is glassed? Mahalo for posting this video!

What was the ear muffs for

I am looking for plans to build a 20’ plywood skiff/dorry. Do you have a recommended supplier for boat plans?

is the "peel ply" needed? or the two ends can be joined without the use of the "peel play"?

I was taught to make 8 to 1 scarf joints in plywood to have a joint close in strength to the plywood. Is this not so anymore?

So no need to scarf?

Hi friend , how can l get that project thanks

What kind of wood or plywood are you using?

You don't scarf these sheets of plywood for this model of boat?

Do you have an IG page? Thank you

ribet amat

Just getting the roids right and you're good to go 🎉.

The big gap looks like shit.