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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
Guillemot "S" Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Guillemot Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) strip planked 0
Gulf Explorer 16 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
GulfStream 28 Bateau Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Gulfstream 28 X Bateau Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Gun Dory Butler Projects Row 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
Gung Ho Glen-L Marine Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) plywood on frame 0
Guppy 9 Devlin Row 9′ 1″ (2.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Gypsy Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Gypsy Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 1″ (6.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Haiku 700 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.2 m (20′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Handy Andy Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Hanzeyawl Manta Marine Design Sail 5.9 m (19′ 4″) n/a 0
Happy Hour Plyboat Paddle 2.8 m (9′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
Harbor Master 19 Bateau Power 18′ 9″ (5.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Harbor Master Displacement 19 Bateau Power 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) stitch and glue 0
Harbor Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) lapstrake 0
Harbormaster Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 2″ (7.06 m) strip planked 0
Hell Cat Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) plywood on frame 0
Hercules Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 1″ (7.34 m) plywood on frame 0
Hi Rider Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) plywood on frame 0
Hiawatha 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 14 Bateau Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Hideaway 22 Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
High-Capacity Great Auk Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) strip planked 0
Hirundo 750 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Hommebåt no. 22 Båtritningar Sail 4.97 m (16′ 4″) n/a 0
Hommebåt no. 25 Båtritningar Sail 6.07 m (19′ 11″) n/a 0
Honker Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Honker 15 Bateau Row 14′ 10″ (4.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker 18 Devlin Power 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker H.B. 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Hoopy Woodenwidget Other n/a n/a 0
Hope of Glory 38 Devlin Sail 38′ 4″ (11.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Houdini John Welsford Sail 4.1 m (13′ 5″) plywood 0
Houseboat 16 Bateau Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 20 Bateau Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Hout Bay 30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 30′ 2″ (9.2 m) radius chine steel 0
Hout Bay 33 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 33′ 8″ (10.25 m) radius chine steel 0
Hout Bay 40 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 39′ 8″ (12.09 m) multi chine steel 0
Hout Bay 50 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 50′ 2″ (15.3 m) multi chine steel 0
Hout Bay 70 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 69′ 11″ (21.3 m) multi chine steel 0
Huck Finn Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Hunky Dory Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) plywood on frame 0
Huron Glen-L Marine Paddle 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) plywood 0
Hydro-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull n/a plywood 0
Idea 19 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6 m (19′ 8″) strip planked 0
Idea 850 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 8.53 m (28′ 0″) strip planked 0
Imp Glen-L Marine Row 9′ 9″ (2.97 m) plywood 0
Indian River Skiff 15 Bateau Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Inlet Runner 14 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 13′ 11″ (4.24 m) plywood garvey 0
Inlet Runner 16 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood garvey 0
Inlet Runner 18 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 17′ 11″ (5.46 m) plywood garvey 0
International Twelve Foot Dinghy George Cockshott Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
Island Time 33 Devlin Power 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Islander Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 11″ (7.6 m) plywood on frame 0
Jack Tar Glen-L Marine Power 31′ 1″ (9.47 m) plywood on frame 0
Jack Tar Arch Davis Design Row 26′ 1″ (7.95 m) plywood on frame 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.