For wooden boat builders
BoatBuildLog
Log your build. Help the next builder.
Photos and notes from the shop as you go, kept from your phone. Free, and yours to keep.
Every photo here is from a logged build.
Boat Build Log: a boat builder logbook for the people doing the work
How long does a boat actually take? gives the medians, by kind of boat and by step.
What it looks like
About the video →Seventy three seconds: a photo of the work in front of you, two lines about what you did, the hours, post. Then the same log months later.
Recent logs
All logs →
Boats with build logs
All designs →| Design | Designer / builder | Status | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeaster Dory | John C. Harris | 1 under way, 2 launched | 3 |
| Squirt | Glen-L Marine | 1 under way, 1 launched | 2 |
| Caladesi Carolina Dory | Jeff Spira | 2 under way | 2 |
| Hot Rod | Glen-L Marine | 1 launched | 1 |
| Custom Mini Sportfish | John Farlow | 1 launched | 1 |
| Hornolo | Yannick Maignien | 1 launched | 1 |
| Micro-Wherry | David Rogers | 1 under way | 1 |
| Theresa ll | Albert Strange | 1 under way | 1 |
How it works
A boat builder logbook is only worth keeping if it takes less effort than skipping it, so this one is built around the three minutes you have at the end of a session.
One
Log it as you go
Photos, a paragraph, hours worked, which step you were on. Sixty seconds, from your phone. Shot Saturday and posting Sunday? The date comes off the photo, not the clock.
Two
It becomes a reference
Entries stay in shop order, oldest first, so the finished log reads start to finish, not newest-first like a blog. Print the whole thing when she launches.
Three
Compare across builders
Every log is filed under its design, so you can see how a dozen people handled fairing on the same hull, and what it actually cost them in hours.