Design

Wild thing

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.

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.

What building a Wild thing actually takes

Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.

Build logs

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Median months

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Builds of this boat

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Same type, closest in length.

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Squirt	Glen-L Marine	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	1
Tunnel Mite	Glen-L Marine	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	0
10' Garvey Jolle	Boatkits	3.05 m (10′ 0″)	0
Super Spartan	Glen-L Marine	10′ 2″ (3.1 m)	0
Class AB	Glen-L Marine	10′ 6″ (3.2 m)	0
Picklefork	Glen-L Marine	9′ 6″ (2.9 m)	0