Design
Wild thing
Designed by Glen-L Marine
A 10 ft stitch-and-glue personal watercraft from Glen-L Marine, sat on like a motorcycle and planing almost instantly on an outboard to 20 hp, about 100 lb. The plywood is cut to patterns, assembled flat and folded into a vee-arc hull with no jig or form. Glen-L's own capitalisation of the name is kept.
They put the usual load at 1 to 2 people. The hull is a vee-arc bottom for Stitch and Glue Fast-G sheet plywood. They draw a matching trailer for her. Quick, cheap and well within almost anyone's ability, in Glen-L's words. Allow 60 to 120 hours. Stitch-and-glue kits are available. Measured medians from logged builds appear below.
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| Squirt | Glen-L Marine | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | 2 |
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| Lake Union Swift | Chesapeake Light Craft | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | 0 |
| Tunnel Mite | Glen-L Marine | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | 0 |
| 10' Garvey Jolle | Boatkits | 3.05 m (10′ 0″) | 0 |
| Fish Hook | John Welsford | 3.05 m (10′ 0″) | 0 |