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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.

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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.