/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I'm a Yellow Cedar and Sapele guy. It seems everything I build for myself and often others is made of one of those two. It helps my workshop is across the street from an exotic wood supplier that has huge Sapele and AYC deals. I built the cabin top in the picture out of Yellow Cedar bonded onto a curved plywood core that I vacuum bagged

>>1855913
This is a cedar strip boat. I built the cabin top that's vacuum bagged yellow cedar.

>>1737166
You can look at Hobie Cats as an example of how multiple hulls may be more stable in the beginning but once you've gone over you are fucked. I'm a builder and have only designed my one powerboat I posted above so I truly can't
scientifically explain how much better a proper mono hull is. Anecdotally I can tell you living the shipwright scrub life in Port Townsend and racing sailboats almost year round, I have never seen anyone in the wooden boat world wastes their time with narrow boats with outriggers outside of the people in the South Pacific.

>>1738051
You should totally build a 3SD. Building a boat isn't hard but it's very hard to do it great which shouldn't matter to you for another ten years