I’m delighted you’re interested in this design. Do please send me some shots of the model and let me know how it went together!

A lot depends on how you want to use the boat and the other materials you plan to build into it. There’s little sense in using cheap glues and gloops with expensive ply; ditto, it’s not the best use of materials to use cheap ply with expensive gloops and glues, although some argue that it’s ok to encapsulate bad ply.

PL Premium is clearly ok for cheap, trashy smal boats, but as you go up the scale I think you quickly reach the point where your investment in time and materials makes sticking with PL a less good choice. Polyester may well be a good middle way – but I’ve never used it so can’t comment from experience. However, I’d guess that if it’s good enough for Dynamite Payson, it’s probably good enough for us.

Gav

The other boat had external chine logs and I used PL Premium glue with stainless screws. Have you had any success with that process or are you a faithful stitch and glue guy?? If you think I should stick with stitch and glue — can I use polyester resin???