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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
Electric Philosophy 40 Devlin Power 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Endeavour Steve Killing Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Ensenada 25 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Escapade Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 2″ (7.98 m) plywood on frame 0
Escapist 24 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Escort Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) plywood on frame 0
Eureka Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) fiberglass 0
Expedition Sailing Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Expedition Single Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) strip planked 0
Expedition Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) stitch and glue 0
Express Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) n/a 0
Extreme Flats 20 Bateau Power 20′ 4″ (6.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Extreme Flats 22 Bateau Power 22′ 1″ (6.73 m) stitch and glue 0
EZ Tunnel Dillon Racing Power 10′ 10″ (3.3 m) plywood 0
F1430 Sit-On-Top Kayak Bedard Yacht Design Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
F1830 Sit-On-Top Tandem Kayak Bedard Yacht Design Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Faering Cruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 22′ 6″ (6.86 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Fafnir John Welsford Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Fairhaven Flyer 20 Devlin Row 20′ 4″ (6.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Falcon Grandpa's Archive Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Fancy Free Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Fast Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) strip planked 0
Fast Eddy 35 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 35′ 4″ (10.76 m) lapstrake aluminum 0
Fast Garvey 10 Bateau Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Launch 26 Bateau Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 12 Bateau Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 14 Low Sheer Bateau Power 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 17 Bateau Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 19 Bateau Power 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Feather Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) fiberglass 0
Featherweight Foam Kayak Grandpa's Archive Paddle n/a n/a 0
Fife Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
FireBug John Spencer Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
Fish Hook John Welsford Power 3.05 m (10′ 0″) plywood 0
Fisher Prospector Selway Fisher Design Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Fisherman Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) plywood on frame 0
Fisherman 28 BCA Demco Power 8.34 m (27′ 4″) plywood 0
Fishing 20 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 20′ 9″ (6.33 m) steel or aluminum 0
Fishing 30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 29′ 6″ (9 m) steel 0
Flat Bottom Jon Boat Vintage Projects Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Bottom Jon Boat Grandpa's Archive Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Chat 16 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood composite 0
Flat Skiff 12 Bateau Power 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Flat Skiff 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Flateka no. 12 Båtritningar Row 4.31 m (14′ 2″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 16 Båtritningar Row 4.98 m (16′ 4″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 23 Båtritningar Row 4.12 m (13′ 6″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 27 Båtritningar Row 5.06 m (16′ 7″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 31 Båtritningar Row 4.29 m (14′ 1″) n/a 0
Flateka pram no. 24 Båtritningar Row 3.93 m (12′ 11″) n/a 0
Flateka pram no. 26 Båtritningar Row 4.03 m (13′ 3″) n/a 0
Flats Flyer Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Flats River Skiff 12 Salt Boatworks Power 11′ 8″ (3.56 m) plywood 0
Flats River Skiff 14 Salt Boatworks Power 13′ 8″ (4.17 m) plywood 0
Flats River Skiff 15 Salt Boatworks Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Flats River Skiff 16 Salt Boatworks Power 16′ 7″ (5.06 m) plywood 0
Flats River Skiff 18 Salt Boatworks Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 0
Flats Stalker 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Flica 34 Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 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.