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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
Tango Glen-L Marine Sail 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Team Dory Chesapeake Light Craft Row 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Techně BCA Demco Sail 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Tempest Glen-L Marine Power 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) cold molded wood 0
Tenas Tiama Bartender Boats Sail 13′ 8″ (4.16 m) n/a 0
Tender Behind John Welsford Row 2.22 m (7′ 3″) plywood 0
Tenderly 10-foot Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Texas Scooter 19 Bateau Power 19′ 4″ (5.89 m) composite 0
Texas Sled 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Thalas 13 BCA Demco Row 4 m (13′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Thalas 16 BCA Demco Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Thing Grandpa's Archive Other 11′ 2″ (3.4 m) n/a 0
Threefold 6 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 19′ 8″ (6 m) folding plywood 0
Thunderbolt Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 3″ (5.26 m) plywood on frame 0
Tikino 16 Modern Wooden Boat Multihull 5.18 m (17′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
TimberCoast 22 Bartender Boats Power 21′ 11″ (6.67 m) n/a 0
Tiny Might Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Titan Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) plywood on frame 0
Titicat BCA Demco Multihull 9 m (29′ 6″) strip planked 0
TLC 19 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) fiberglass 0
TLC 27 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) fiberglass 0
TNT Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) plywood on frame 0
Topper Glen-L Marine Sail 10′ 8″ (3.25 m) plywood 0
Tornado Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Torpedo Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) cold molded wood 0
Tortoise Phil Bolger Row 6′ 5″ (1.96 m) plywood 0
Toy Whitehall Geodesic Airolite Boats Row n/a skin on frame 0
Traditional Dory Vintage Projects Row n/a n/a 0
Tramp Vintage Projects Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) n/a 0
Tramp Grandpa's Archive Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Trawler 28 Bateau Power 28′ 2″ (8.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Tread Lightly John Welsford Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) plywood 0
Tres Hombres Sloep Manta Marine Design Row 4.45 m (14′ 7″) n/a 0
Triad Stevenson Projects Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Tricky Five BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Trika 540 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.4 m) folding plywood 0
Trika 540 by Klaus Metz Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Trillo BCA Demco Multihull 7.5 m (24′ 7″) strip planked 0
Trixie Andrew Walters Design Row 7′ 2″ (2.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Tropic 12 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
Tropic 14 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
Trover John Welsford Power 4.4 m (14′ 5″) plywood 0
Truant John Welsford Sail 3.5 m (11′ 6″) plywood 0
True Grit Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
True North XPD Steve Killing Paddle 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) strip planked 0
Tryst 10 Woods Designs Multihull 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Tubby Tugboat Glen-L Marine Power 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Tuffy Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 1″ (3.99 m) plywood on frame 0
Tug Along Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Tunnel Mite Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood on frame 0
Tweak Plyboat Row 2.2 m (7′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
Twin Star White Salmon Boat Works Paddle n/a strip planked 0
Two Plus Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Ultra Pierre Glen-L Marine Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Union Jack Glen-L Marine Power 30′ 11″ (9.42 m) steel 0
Unsinkable Dinghy Grandpa's Archive Row 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) n/a 0
Utility Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) plywood on frame 0
V-Bottom Dinghy 10 Bateau Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
V-Bottom Dinghy 12 Bateau Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
V-Dory Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 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.