Stillwater Boats are built on a very simple jig of just two station forms that can be set up on sawhorses, bench top, or the kitchen table, if you're so inclined. Fewer pieces mean less time. There are also fewer joints to work, and possibly fail, over the long term. Secondly, there is very little fairing work to do, unlike a stripper where the whole boat has to be sanded inside and out in order to fair all of those little strips into each other. Thirdly, the finishing process is much easier without all the edges of a lapstrake boat to deal with.
All methods have their advantages and disadvantages.
What Stillwater Boats offer is a quick, lightweight, and simple method that results in a nicely shaped hull. Stillwater Boats are built by cutting four panels out of 3mm marine plywood, folding them together, and fiberglassing the joints. What makes this work are vertical cuts that allow the panels to take their shape. A simple idea, a simple boat. The wood kits consists of the plans package as above, as well as the hull and deck panels cut to shape and the rest of the wood needed for the construction of the actual boat.