You're talking about cold-molded
epoxy-wood laminate construction. The techniques are very sound and the boats hold up quite well, provided they're properly maintained. If done properly, the boats are significantly stronger than regular fiberglass laminate boats for the same weight and will suffer far less fatigue. I've been on a couple, one of which was at least 20 years old... and she's as solid a boat as I've ever seen. Most of the boats I've seen built using the wood-epoxy laminate system were multihulls or very small daysailers.. no monohulls that I know of.
Many of Chris White's multihull designs are built using these techniques.
BTW, there are basically two different major wood-epoxy techniques. The first is plywood-epoxy. The smaller stitch-and-glue boats are often this design, as are the Constant Camber designs. The second is strip-molded wood-laminate. This can either be with solid wood strips, plywood strips or ContourCore balsa-hardwood laminate strips.
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