On 1/4/2017 John Kohnen wrote:

Sam Devlin started building boats in northwest Eugene with his dad more than forty years ago. He soon learned to intuitively design plywood boats using models and build them using the stitch 'n' glue construction method. Sam had a talent for designing Good Boats, and he built a successful business, now located in Olympia, selling plans and constructing very well built and finished boats that fetch top dollar. Every year at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival there's a whole "ghetto" set aside for Devlin designed boats, built at his shop and by amateurs using Sam's plans.

In Devlin's Boat Building Sam explains just about everything you need to know to build a stitch 'n' glue boat: tools and setting up your shop, selecting a design, choosing materials, working with epoxy and fiberglass, on through putting the boat together and getting a finish on it. He even throws in a chapter about designing boats using models. If you're interested in building stitch 'n' glue boats, this is the book to read, written by someone who knows an awful lot about building boats that way.

Trade paperback. 198 pages.