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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.

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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
12' Garvey Jolle Boatkits Power 3.76 m (12′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
12' Ruderboot Boatkits Row 3.7 m (12′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
12ft Driftboat Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
13 ft Rowboat Grandpa's Archive Row 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) n/a 0
13' 3" Wee Lassie II Newfound Woodworks Paddle 13′ 3″ (4.04 m) strip planked 0
13' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.9 m (12′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
13' Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4 m (13′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
13' Kanu Boatkits Paddle 3.91 m (12′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
13' Kombi Kanu Boatkits Paddle 3.96 m (13′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
13' Lapstrake Canoe Duck Trap Woodworking Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) lapstrake 0
13' Schwan Boatkits Row 3.83 m (12′ 7″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
13' wPod Boatkits Sail 4.11 m (13′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
131 ft Ketch Antonia Benford Design Group Sail 131′ 0″ (39.93 m) cold moulded 0
14 ft Sloop Happy Benford Design Group Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) cold moulded 0
14 ft Tug Bullhead , Trawler Yacht & Grivit Benford Design Group Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
14-Foot Great Auk Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
14.6 ft Flat Bottom 494 Response Marine Power 14′ 7″ (4.45 m) aluminum 0
14' Garvey Jolle Boatkits Power 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
14' Motorjolle Boatkits Power 4.31 m (14′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
14' Motorkanu Boatkits Paddle 4.3 m (14′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
14' Paddle Board Boatkits Paddle 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
14ft Driftboat Glen-L Marine Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
15' 11" Explorer Newfound Woodworks Paddle 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) strip planked with stitch and glue 0
15' 6" Voyager Newfound Woodworks Paddle 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) strip planked 0
15' 9" Osprey Newfound Woodworks Paddle 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) strip planked 0
15' Doppelt Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4.65 m (15′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
15' Hollaendisches Boot Boatkits Power 4.59 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Jolle Boatkits Row 4.56 m (15′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
15' Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4.7 m (15′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
15' Kanu Boatkits Paddle 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Lapstrake Canoe Duck Trap Woodworking Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake 0
15' Okwata-Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Ruderkatamaran Boatkits Row 4.59 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Seekajak Boatkits Paddle 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16 ft Conch Ad Libitum Sailing Tender Benford Design Group Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood bottom with lapstrake sides 0
16 ft Flat Bottom 472 Response Marine Power 16′ 1″ (4.9 m) aluminum 0
16.3 ft Flat Bottom 495 Response Marine Power 16′ 4″ (4.98 m) aluminum 0
16' 1" Abenaki Newfound Woodworks Paddle 16′ 1″ (4.9 m) strip planked 0
16' 2" Adirondack Guideboat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) strip planked 0
16' 6" Georgian Bay Newfound Woodworks Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
16' 6" Rangeley Lake Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
16' 6" Shooting Star Newfound Woodworks Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
16' 8" Whitehall Pulling Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 8″ (5.08 m) strip planked 0
16' 9" Wherry Pulling/Sailing Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 9″ (5.11 m) strip planked 0
16' Chestnut Kruger Newfound Woodworks Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
16' Flachbuendiges Kanu Boatkits Paddle 4.8 m (15′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
16' Kahn mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 4.8 m (15′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
16' Seecruiser Boatkits Power 4.91 m (16′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16' Seekajak Boatkits Paddle 4.9 m (16′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16' Segelboot Boatkits Sail 4.54 m (14′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
16' Speedboot Boatkits Power 4.63 m (15′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
16' Tourenkanu Boatkits Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
17 ft Catboat Puffin & Cruising Cat Liberty Benford Design Group Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
17 ft Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) C-Flex fibreglass 0
17 ft Cruising Sloop or Yawl or Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
17 ft Fantail Steam Launch Myf Benford Design Group Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) carvel planked 0
17 ft Flat Bottom 552 Response Marine Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) aluminum 0
17 ft V Hull 480 Response Marine Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) aluminum 0
17' 1" Nipmuc Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 1″ (5.21 m) strip planked 0
17' 11" Outer Island Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 11″ (5.46 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.