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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
Sponge Docks Skiff 19 Bedard Yacht Design Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Sport Boat 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Sport C Tunnel Dillon Racing Power 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) plywood 0
Sport Fisherman 24 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) wood 0
Sportfish 570 BCA Demco Power 5.7 m (18′ 8″) plywood 0
Sportfoil Stevenson Projects Power n/a plywood 0
SportzMaster 19 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) strip plank composite 0
Spray 22 Bruce Roberts Sail 24′ 0″ (7.31 m) plywood 0
Spray 27 Bruce Roberts Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) n/a 0
Spray 28 Bruce Roberts Sail 28′ 7″ (8.7 m) n/a 0
Spray 33 Bruce Roberts Sail 32′ 11″ (10.03 m) n/a 0
Spritz! BCA Demco Sail 2.95 m (9′ 8″) stitch and glue 0
St Ayles Skiff Iain Oughtred Row 22′ 0″ (6.7 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Starpath Glen-L Marine Sail 43′ 11″ (13.39 m) cold molded wood 0
Stasha Woodenwidget Row 7′ 3″ (2.2 m) skin on frame 0
Steelaway Glen-L Marine Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) steel 0
Stiletto Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Stillaguamish Tribe 26 Foot Canoe Devlin Paddle 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Stillaguamish Tribe 36 Foot Canoe Devlin Paddle 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) stitch and glue 0
Stitch & Glue Night Heron Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Stow-Away 6.5 Spirited Designs Multihull 6.5 m (21′ 4″) composite 0
Stow-Away 7.5 Spirited Designs Multihull 7.5 m (24′ 7″) composite 0
Stow-Away 8.5 Spirited Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) composite 0
Strider Woods Designs Multihull 7.3 m (23′ 11″) cold molded wood 0
Strike 15 Woods Designs Multihull 4.5 m (14′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Strike 16 Woods Designs Multihull 4.75 m (15′ 7″) plywood 0
Strike 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Strike 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 0
Strike 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
Stripper Glen-L Marine Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Sundowner John Welsford Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Sunshine Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) lapstrake 0
Super Huck Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
Super Skipjack Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood 0
Super Spartan Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) plywood on frame 0
Surf Scoter 22 Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 22 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Fisher Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Traditional Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Surfsong Woods Designs Multihull 8.4 m (27′ 7″) plywood 0
Surge Coastal Rower 1CX Rowing Boat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 8″ (5.99 m) stitch and glue 0
Swaggie John Welsford Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Sweet Caroline Glen-L Marine Row 20′ 1″ (6.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Sweet Pea John Welsford Sail 5.3 m (17′ 5″) plywood 0
Sweet Pea Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle n/a skin on frame 0
Sweet Pea Mark II Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle n/a skin on frame 0
Sweet Sixteen Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Swift Canoe 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Swift Swoose Grandpa's Archive Multihull 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood on frame 0
Swish Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Synergy 38 Spirited Designs Multihull 11.7 m (38′ 5″) n/a 0
T-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Tahoe 19 Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) cold molded wood 0
Tahoe 23 Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) cold molded wood 0
Takalak White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Tamanu Gary Dierking Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) Plywood, taped seam 0
Tamar 31 Woods Designs Multihull 9.5 m (31′ 2″) plywood 0
Tandem Day Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Quick Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 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.