Terms of use

Last updated 17 August 2026. Plain language, because it should be readable.

Your work stays yours

You keep the copyright in every photo and word you post. By posting, you give boatbuildlog.com permission to display and distribute it as part of the site — nothing more. Delete your build and that permission ends.

Do not post someone else’s plans

This one matters and it is the fastest way to get a log taken down. Boat plans, patterns, tables of offsets, kit manuals and study drawings are copyrighted work, and designers earn their living from them. Photographs of the boat you are building are yours to post. A scan of sheet 3 is not.

The same goes for photos you did not take, text copied from a forum or a book, and manufacturer literature.

What gets removed

Spam, advertising, harassment, and anything that is not a genuine record of building or restoring a boat. First builds are reviewed by a person before they go public. After that we rely on you to tell us when something is wrong.

Advice here is not professional advice

These are amateur build logs. Nothing here is engineering, structural or safety advice. Boats can kill people. Check what you read against your designer’s drawings, your own judgement, and where it matters, a professional.

Copyright complaints

If something here infringes your copyright, write to dmca@boatbuildlog.com with the URL, what it infringes, and how to reach you. We will take it down while we sort it out.

No promises about uptime

This is a small site run by a person, not a company. It is offered as-is. Keep your own copies of your photos — the originals you upload are resized and the full-resolution files are not retained.