About me
Sam Devlin has been in business as a boat designer and builder for 45 years and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading designers of Stitch-and-Glue boats. His design catalog includes more than 100 pleasure and commercial watercraft from a 6'6" dinghy to a 62' blue water motorsailer. Most of the designs under 30' are available as plans and/or kits for the amateur builder. Sam and Lawrence W. Cheek together authored the new "Devlin's Boatbuilding Manual: How to Build your Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way" in 2023.
Writer Larry Cheek is a regular contributor to WoodenBoat magazine and has built seven boats, three of them Devlin designs. He has written 15 books, including "The Year of the Boat," the story of his personal journey into obsessive boatbuilding through—of course—a Devlin sailboat.
