The most common building materials for boats are wood, steel and fiberglass. for propulsion, modern boats mostly use human-driven paddles, wind sails or diesel engines. the most uncomplicated boats to build at home, and arguably the easiest to maintain, are wooden boats.. Diesel duck wooden boat building. in this episode we finally finish up our first five stations by cutting the chine notches, glueing the gussets in place and bolting everything together.. Lapstrake/clinker is the method of wooden boat building where the planks overlap rather than butting each other. while an underlying back bone is needed, the framing can be done after the planking and ribbands may not be needed..
