Craft putting stoat's tail on pelt stole (9)
I believe the answer is:
speedboat
'craft' is the definition.
(speedboat is a kind of craft)
'stoat's tail on pelt stole' is the wordplay.
'tail' says to take the final letters.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'pelt' becomes 'speed' (pelt can mean to speed or rush).
'stole' becomes 'boa' (both can mean a type of scarf).
The last letter of 'stoat' is 't'.
'speed'+'boa'='speedboa'
't' put after 'speedboa' is 'SPEEDBOAT'.
'putting' is the link.
(Other definitions for speedboat that I've seen before include "A fast motor vessel" , "High-speed vessel" , "swift craft" .)