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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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Moccasin Double Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Nereide BCA Demco Paddle 4.8 m (15′ 9″) strip planked 0
Nimrod 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Ninfa BCA Demco Paddle 4.3 m (14′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Nymph 12 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) strip planked 0
Orca 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 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
Pirogue Glen-L Marine Paddle 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Plyak 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 4″ (3.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Pond Skipper 14 Devlin Paddle 13′ 10″ (4.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Ranger Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Rob Roy Glen-L Marine Paddle 14′ 5″ (4.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Rob Roy 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Sassafras 12 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Sassafras 16 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater 14 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 6″ (4.43 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Shearwater Sport Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) stitch and glue 0
SnowShoe 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
SnowShoe 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Snowshoe Explorer 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Solo Day Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Solo Pack Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) strip planked 0
Solo Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Swift Canoe 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Takalak White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Venture Steve Killing Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
Waterman 12 Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 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

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.