Boat designs
Wooden boat plans and kits, with the build logs attached
Boats built from plans or a kit, by the people building them. Pick one to see every build log of it, how long they actually took, and where the hours went.
1,600+ boat plans and kits from 94 designers are listed here in one place: Glen-L Marine, Chesapeake Light Craft, Devlin, Dudley Dix, John Welsford, Iain Oughtred, Bateau, Benford and the rest. Every design page carries the specs, where the plans or the kit come from, and every build log anyone here has kept of that boat, so you can see what it actually took before you buy the drawings.
Filter by who drew it, by what it is (kayaks, canoes, skiffs, dories, dinghies, sailboats, runabouts and cruisers), by length, or by how it goes together: stitch and glue, glued lapstrake, strip plank, plywood on frame, skin on frame. Most of the catalog is plywood, which is also where a first boat should start.
1626 boats
Compare two boats| Design | Plans from | Type | LOA | Construction | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northeaster Dory | Chesapeake Light Craft | Row | 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) | lapstrake plywood | 3 |
| Caladesi Carolina Dory | Spira International | Power | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | plywood | 2 |
| Squirt | Glen-L Marine | Power | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | plywood on frame | 2 |
| 14 ft Rapid Robert | Roger Fletcher | Row | 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| 15' Rangeley Lake Boat | Newfound Woodworks | Row | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | strip planked | 1 |
| 1957 echocraft runabout | Echo-Craft | Power | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Cabin Skiff | Glen-L Marine | Power | 16′ 3″ (4.95 m) | stitch and glue | 1 |
| Cape Cutter 19 | Dudley Dix Yacht Design | Sail | 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) | lapstrake plywood | 1 |
| Cruiser | James Bosman | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Custom Mini Sportfish | John Farlow | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| 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 |
| Fishing boat | James Bosman | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Flying Saucer | Glen-L Marine | Power | 12′ 3″ (3.73 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| Forest & Stream Skiff | Forest and Stream | Row | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Garvey Skiff | Daniel Berg | Power | n/a | n/a | 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 |
| Hot Rod | Glen-L Marine | Power | 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| Idea 21 | Modern Wooden Boat | Sail | 6.3 m (20′ 8″) | radius chine plywood | 1 |
| Jersey Girl | Jim Norman | Power | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| Jimmy Skiff II | Chesapeake Light Craft | Sail | 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) | stitch and glue | 1 |
| Malahini | Glen-L Marine | Power | 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| Micro-Wherry | David Rogers | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Mini Cruiser | James Bosman | Power | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Navigator | John Welsford | Sail | 4.5 m (14′ 9″) | glued lapstrake plywood | 1 |
| Paper Jet 14 | Dudley Dix Yacht Design | Sail | 13′ 5″ (4.1 m) | stitch and glue | 1 |
| Passagemaker Take-Apart | Chesapeake Light Craft | Row | 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) | lapstrake plywood | 1 |
| Polliwog 8 | Devlin | Row | 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) | stitch and glue | 1 |
| Sea Scout | William D. Jackson | Power | 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| Sea Strike 16 | Bowdidge Marine Designs | Power | 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) | plywood fiberglass composite | 1 |
| Shearwater Sport Hybrid | Chesapeake Light Craft | Paddle | 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) | stitch and glue with strip deck | 1 |
| Solo Flats Skiff (SK14) | Bateau | Power | 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) | stitch and glue | 1 |
| Speed boat | James Bosman | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| The Guider | Chesapeake Light Craft | Row | 18′ 7″ (5.66 m) | lapstrake plywood | 1 |
| Theresa ll | Albert Strange | Sail | 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) | n/a | 1 |
| Tiny Titan | Glen-L Marine | Power | 8′ 2″ (2.49 m) | plywood on frame | 1 |
| Ultralight Dinghy | Chesapeake Light Craft | Row | 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) | stitch and glue | 1 |
| Voyager 432 | Bruce Roberts | Sail | 46′ 3″ (14.1 m) | radius chine steel or aluminum | 1 |
| Wooden Fish | James Bosman | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Wooden Shoe | Nexus Marine | Power | 23′ 10″ (7.26 m) | cold molded wood | 1 |
| 10-Foot Little Auk | Chesapeake Light Craft | Paddle | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | strip planked | 0 |
| 10' 2" Lawton Tender | Newfound Woodworks | Row | 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) | strip planked | 0 |
| 10' Garvey Jolle | Boatkits | Power | 3.05 m (10′ 0″) | stitch and glue | 0 |
| 10' Jolle | Boatkits | Row | 3.08 m (10′ 1″) | stitch and glue | 0 |
| 10' Ruderboot | Boatkits | Row | 3.12 m (10′ 3″) | stitch and glue | 0 |
| 11 ft 4 in Sunrise Dinghy | Benford Design Group | Row | 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) | plywood | 0 |
| 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-Foot Little Auk | Chesapeake Light Craft | Paddle | 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) | strip planked | 0 |
| 11' 4" Wee Lassie | Newfound Woodworks | Paddle | 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) | strip planked | 0 |
| 11' 9" Otter | Newfound Woodworks | Paddle | 11′ 9″ (3.58 m) | strip planked | 0 |
| 11' Jolle | Boatkits | Sail | 3.6 m (11′ 10″) | stitch and glue | 0 |
| 11' Jolle mit flachem Boden | Boatkits | Row | 3.4 m (11′ 2″) | stitch and glue | 0 |
| 12 ft Flat Bottom 433 | Response Marine | Power | 12′ 5″ (3.79 m) | aluminum | 0 |
| 12 ft Keelboat | Benford Design Group | Sail | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | n/a | 0 |
| 12 ft Outboard Skiff | Grandpa's Archive | Power | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | plywood on frame | 0 |
| 12 ft V Hull Outboard Boat | Vintage Projects | Power | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | n/a | 0 |
| 12' 8" Excursion | Newfound Woodworks | Paddle | 12′ 8″ (3.86 m) | strip planked | 0 |
Boat not listed? Start your log and type its name and it gets added to the catalog. Specs here are community-maintained; check them against the designer’s own drawings before you cut anything.