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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
Vacationer Stevenson Projects Sail 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
Vagabond 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond 23 Bateau Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond 26 Bateau Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond Plus 20 Bateau Sail 19′ 8″ (5.99 m) stitch and glue 0
Vandal Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 3″ (6.78 m) plywood on frame 0
Vardo Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
Variant Glen-L Marine Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) plywood on frame 0
Vee Gull Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) plywood on frame 0
Venture Steve Killing Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
Vera Cruise Glen-L Marine Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) plywood on frame 0
Vertue Laurent Giles Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) carvel 0
Vickers 45 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 45′ 5″ (13.85 m) fiberglass 0
Vickers 45AC Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 45′ 5″ (13.85 m) cold molded wood 0
Vigilant Glen-L Marine Power 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) cold molded wood 0
Vila 570 BCA Demco Power 5.7 m (18′ 8″) plywood 0
Vila 620 BCA Demco Power 6.2 m (20′ 4″) plywood 0
Vila 650 BCA Demco Power 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Vision Wood Single Sculls Dudley Dix Yacht Design Row 25′ 4″ (7.73 m) wood 0
Volare Console Andrew Walters Design Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Volare Utility Andrew Walters Design Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
W17 Trimaran by Mike Waters Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 1″ (5.21 m) plywood 0
Wahkeena White Salmon Boat Works Paddle n/a strip planked 0
Walkabout John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Wanderlust Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood on frame 0
Waterlodge Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood 0
Waterlust Sailing Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Waterman 12 Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Waverunner 24 Bruce Roberts Power 24′ 0″ (7.31 m) plywood 0
Wayfarer Ian Proctor Sail 15′ 10″ (4.83 m) plywood 0
Wee Hunk Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Weekender Stevenson Projects Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) plywood 0
Weekender 12 Bateau Row 12′ 3″ (3.73 m) stitch and glue 0
Westport Dinghy Geodesic Airolite Boats Row n/a skin on frame 0
Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 23′ 6″ (7.16 m) stitch and glue 0
Wherry 10 White Salmon Boat Works Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) strip planked 0
Wherry 14 White Salmon Boat Works Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
Whitby Pilot Gig Chesapeake Light Craft Row 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) lapstrake plywood 0
White Salmon Pram White Salmon Boat Works Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) strip planked 0
Whitehall Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 11″ (5.16 m) strip planked 0
Whitehall Jr. Geodesic Airolite Boats Row n/a skin on frame 0
Wild thing Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Wildcat E_X_T Cuddy Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood on frame 0
Wildcat E_X_T Sport Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) plywood on frame 0
Windsong Woods Designs Multihull 9.15 m (30′ 0″) plywood 0
Windy 900 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 29′ 2″ (8.9 m) fiberglass 0
Wing Dinghy Stevenson Projects Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Wizard Woods Designs Multihull 6.7 m (22′ 0″) strip planked 0
Wood Duck 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 10 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Wood Duck 12 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 12 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Wood Duck 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 13′ 9″ (4.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 14 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 13′ 9″ (4.19 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Wood Duck Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duckling 8 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
XP-8 Glen-L Marine Power 8′ 3″ (2.52 m) plywood on frame 0
Yankee Star Glen-L Marine Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) cold molded wood 0
Young Baggie BCA Demco Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) strip planked 0
Yukon Glen-L Marine Power 35′ 8″ (10.87 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.