He had stumbled upon the stitch-and-glue method. The stitch-and-glue method is a simple boat building technique popularized in the 1960s that creates a solid, one-piece hull, unlike most other ...

The advent of so-called stitch-and-glue kits has made boatbuilding accessible to nearly everyone. Today, beautiful, high-performance boats can be built from designs and ma-terials delivered by mail.

The advent of so-called stitch-and-glue kits have made boatbuilding accessible to nearly everyone. Today, beautiful, high-performance boats can be built from designs and materials delivered by mail.

Students confer quietly, as Pygmy Boats founder and chief designer John Lockwood floats from project to project, dispensing advice and encouragement. Though building stitch-and-glue kayaks ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I wasn’t supposed to break the tiller. I mean: no one intends to break a tiller. But I had assured John ...