Wood. the traditional boat building material used for hull and spar construction. it is buoyant, widely available and easily worked. it is a popular material for small boats (of e.g. 6-metre (20 ft) length; such as dinghies and sailboats).. Once you have the bottom and sides cut out, you can start to "stitch and glue" the hull together. this is a technique used usually for smaller boats to be able to pull the hull form together without the need to build a frame or mold (which can take almost as long and as much wood as the boat itself).. Wood boat building wood epoxy boat plans boat plans sailboats trawlers yachts. wood or timber boat designs can be built using wood epoxy, strip plank, diagonal cold molded or a combination of these methods. some plywood multi-chine as well as round bilge wood boat designs included in our range..