Ive been working in the composite industry for over seven years and served my apprenticeship in the boatbuilding industry using mainly pre preg and hand lay up techniques. Since moving to a company where you have a bit more artistic liscense, I would like to improve my knowledge on composite materials so I can start making my own decisions and knowing what to use and when. Things like minimum and maximum overlaps, staggers, weave structural properties, material structural properties. So if anyone knows of any reading materials or websites that could help I would really appreciate it. 

However, the boat building industry is backwards in coming forwards in terms of materials and technique advancements - panel thickness for example can be dramatically decreased by manufacturing under vacuum - a wet laid panel will be 20-50% thicker than a panel produced under vacuum but in the marine industry, thickness is key so despite producing a panel of at least equal strength for less weight and better consolidation, you would (in many marine cases) need to increase the number of layers to achieve the same thickness as you would do without vacuum which starts to somewhat defeat the object.