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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
Parti O Grandpa's Archive Power n/a plywood on frame 0
Party Boat Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 6″ (6.25 m) plywood on frame 0
Passagemaker Standard Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Pathfinder John Welsford Sail n/a plywood 0
Peace Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 0
Pedal-It Glen-L Marine Paddle 9′ 4″ (2.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Pee Wee Glen-L Marine Power 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) plywood on frame 0
Peeler Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Power 15′ 2″ (4.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Peeper 12 Devlin Row 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelegrin John Welsford Sail 5.15 m (16′ 11″) plywood 0
Pelicano 18 Bassboat Devlin Power 18′ 4″ (5.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Center Console Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Shrimper Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Sportster Devlin Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 20 Devlin Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Bassboat Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Center Console Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Shrimper Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Penguin John Welsford Sail 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Penguin Class Dinghy Philip Rhodes Sail 11′ 5″ (3.48 m) plywood 0
Penobscot 13 Arch Davis Design Sail 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Penobscot 14 Arch Davis Design Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Penobscot 17 Arch Davis Design Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Peregrine 36 Devlin Sail 35′ 10″ (10.92 m) stitch and glue 0
Petrel Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Petrel 28 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 8.23 m (27′ 0″) plywood on frame 0
Petrel 33 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 9.9 m (32′ 6″) plywood on frame 0
Petrel Play Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
Petrel Scout SG Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Petrel Sport SG Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom Glen-L Marine Power 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) plywood on frame 0
Phantom 15 Bateau Power 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) composite 0
Phantom 16 Bateau Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 22 Bateau Power 21′ 10″ (6.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Picklefork Glen-L Marine Power 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) plywood on frame 0
Piepowder 16 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 16′ 7″ (5.05 m) fiberglass 0
Pilgrim John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Pilot 19 Bateau Power 18′ 11″ (5.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Pilot 21 Bateau Power 20′ 11″ (6.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Pinocchio Plyboat Paddle 2.34 m (7′ 8″) stitch and glue 0
Pintail Duck Boat Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood on frame 0
Pirogue Glen-L Marine Paddle 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Pixie 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Pixie 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Platform Houseboat Grandpa's Archive Power n/a plywood on frame 0
Play Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
Play 'n Jane Glen-L Marine Power 21′ 9″ (6.63 m) plywood on frame 0
Play Pen Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Playboy Grandpa's Archive Power 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Plurt Woodenwidget Other n/a n/a 0
Ply-Flier Stevenson Projects Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Plyak Grandpa's Archive Paddle n/a plywood on frame 0
Plyak 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 4″ (3.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Plysonic Woodenwidget Other n/a n/a 0
Plystream Woodenwidget Other n/a n/a 0
Plywood Dory Butler Projects Row n/a plywood 0
Plywood Kayak Grandpa's Archive Paddle n/a n/a 0
Plywood Rowboat Vintage Projects Row 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) n/a 0
Pocket Cruiser Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) 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.