Corecell m for stitch and glue. discussion in 'materials' started by sinjin, jan 16, 2012. page 1 of 2 1 2 next > joined: jan 2012 posts: 12 build panels inside formers not over !! make glass foam panels with the glass side outside and the foam inside stitch it the same as if it was plywood !. The foam pads are easy to cut from leftover foam and eliminate the need for the putty fillets used in stitch and glue. when some parts of the hull require additional stiffeners, those are made from foam strips, trapezoidal section, covered by fiberglass tape.. My daughter built this kayak over the past two years. she did almost all of the work, and now has a lightweight and very fast kayak..
The complete boat weighs about 13 lbs, less than half of the best weight i got using stitch and glue on a minimouse, 35lbs. seafoam still isn't done, my dad put his elbow through my first attempt at a foam deck hatch, so i cut the foam decks off and made plywood decks with hatches.. The last boat i designed was the europa 20, which is a trimaran meant for vertical strip foam construction with sandwich style, infused epoxy/glass laminates inside and out. plywood trimarans, sailboats, stitch and glue boat designs, stitch and glue boats, stitch and glue trimarans, strip-built multihull sailboats, multihulls, plywood. These step by step videos show the stitch-and-glue kayak construction process. all of our boat kits are built using this "stitch-n-glue" construction. the panel shapes differ, but the stitch and glue steps are nearly identical..
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