Many of the stitch-and-glue plywood boats are excellent little boats, and relatively easy to make. Properly built, they're also fairly low maintenance, far lower than a wooden boat would be. One good magazine for you to look at is Small Craft Advisor. They have a lot of articles on just these same kind of boats, although their focus isn't strictly on sailing.
While I'm not sailing on a home-built, I have many friends who do. The sailing characteristics of the boats really depend a lot on the design, the build quality and you... since your body weight is a significant portion of the ballast.
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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