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All Paddle  161 Row  159 Sail  350 Power  534 Multihull  87 Other  12
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By construction
Any stitch and glue  476 plywood on frame  201 plywood  146 strip planked  96 cold molded wood  40 lapstrake plywood  30 fiberglass  20 glued lapstrake plywood  17 radius chine plywood  17 steel chine  16 cold moulded  15 lapstrake  15
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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Didi 26 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) radius chine plywood 1
Eland 36 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 36′ 5″ (11.11 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Grey Seal Iain Oughtred Sail 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) glued lapstrake plywood 1
Hornolo Yannick Maignien Sail 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 1
Idea 21 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.3 m (20′ 8″) radius chine plywood 1
Jimmy Skiff II Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 1
Paper Jet 14 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 13′ 5″ (4.1 m) stitch and glue 1
Theresa ll Albert Strange Sail 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) n/a 1
11 ft Night Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) plywood 0
11 ft Oregon Peapod Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
11 ft Sailing Dinghy with Transom Stern Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
11' Jolle Boatkits Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
12 ft Keelboat Benford Design Group Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
13' wPod Boatkits Sail 4.11 m (13′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
131 ft Ketch Antonia Benford Design Group Sail 131′ 0″ (39.93 m) cold moulded 0
14 ft Sloop Happy Benford Design Group Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) cold moulded 0
16 ft Conch Ad Libitum Sailing Tender Benford Design Group Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood bottom with lapstrake sides 0
16' Segelboot Boatkits Sail 4.54 m (14′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
17 ft Catboat Puffin & Cruising Cat Liberty Benford Design Group Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
17 ft Cruising Sloop or Yawl or Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
18 ft Canoe Yawl Iota , Catboat or Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) cold moulded 0
18 ft Cat Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 0
19 ft Cr. Cat, Slp, Lug Slp, Yawl Scrimshaw Benford Design Group Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked 0
19 ft Gunkholer Catspaw Benford Design Group Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
20 ft Gaff Sloop Ragnar or Marconi Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) cold moulded 0
21 ft Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) C-Flex fibreglass 0
22 ft Cruising Cat or Topsail Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) cold moulded or Airex cored fibreglass 0
22 ft Gunkholer Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) carvel planked or plywood 0
22 ft Knockabout or Lug Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
23 ft Canoe Yawl Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
23 ft Knockabout, Lug Slp., Mtrs'lr. Sourdough Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood 0
24 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) n/a 0
25 ft Gaff Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) carvel planked 0
25 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) cold moulded 0
26 ft 3 in Cruising Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
26 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded 0
26 ft Raised Deck Twin Keel Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood 0
26 ft V-Bottom Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood 0
27 ft Cutter or Pilothouse Sloop or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
27 ft Flattie Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) plywood 0
3-In-1 Stevenson Projects Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
30 ft 5 in & 31'-8" Sailing Dory Baby Badger Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 5″ (9.27 m) plywood 0
30 ft Double Ended Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
30 ft Sailing Dory Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) plywood 0
31 ft Auxiliary Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 31′ 0″ (9.45 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
32 ft Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) n/a 0
32 ft Double Ended Ketch or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) cold moulded or strip planked 0
32 ft Pinky Ketch Dawn Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) carvel planked 0
32 ft Sailing Dory Shoestring Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) plywood 0
32 ft St. Pierre Dory Proctor Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) plywood 0
33 Cruiser Racer Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 33′ 2″ (10.1 m) fiberglass 0
33 ft Auxiliary Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) cold moulded 0
34 ft 6 in Schooner or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 6″ (10.52 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
34 ft Pinky Ketch Sunrise Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) carvel planked 0
34 ft Sailing Dory Badger Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) plywood 0
35 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) cold moulded 0
35 ft Double Ended Cutter or Ketch Mercedes Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or steel chine or round bilge steel 0
35 ft Double Ended Schooner Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) cold moulded 0
35 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) carvel planked 0
36 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) cold moulded 0

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