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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.

By builder
All Glen-L Marine  287 Benford Design Group  147 Devlin  142 Bateau  141 Chesapeake Light Craft  121 Dudley Dix Yacht Design  90 BCA Demco  64 Grandpa's Archive  54 Woods Designs  46 Boatkits  41 John Welsford  36 B&B Yacht Designs  35 Newfound Woodworks  32 Båtritningar  32 Modern Wooden Boat  21 Bowdidge Marine Designs  21 Duck Trap Woodworking  20 Geodesic Airolite Boats  19 Butler Projects  18 Stevenson Projects  16 Spirited Designs  16 Ashes Still Water Boats  15 White Salmon Boat Works  14 Vintage Projects  13 Bartender Boats  13 Woodenwidget  13 Bruce Roberts  12 Arch Davis Design  12 Plyboat  11 Response Marine  11 B&G Yacht Design  10 Salt Boatworks  9 Andrew Walters Design  9 Steve Killing  9 Dillon Racing  8 Bedard Yacht Design  8 Long Lake Wooden Boats  6 Unik Yachts  5 James Bosman  5 Iain Oughtred  4 Selway Fisher Design  3 Manta Marine Design  3 John Spencer  2 William D. Jackson  2 John Farlow  2 Roger Fletcher  1 Nexus Marine  1 Sande  1 Laurent Giles  1 U-Fab Boats  1 Forest and Stream  1 Build-A-Boat  1 The Cardboard Boat Book  1 Echo-Craft  1 Phil Bolger  1 Pygmy Boats  1 Jim Michalak  1 Spira International  1 Ray Speck  1 Albert Strange  1 Yannick Maignien  1 Niel Shelton  1 David Rogers  1 Iver Franzen  1 Jim Norman  1 Daniel Berg  1 Gary Dierking  1 P&F Yacht Design  1 Philip Rhodes  1 Jack Holt  1 Ron Given  1 Ian Proctor  1 George Cockshott  1
By type
All Paddle  227 Row  229 Sail  418 Power  616 Multihull  108 Other  20
By length
Any Under 12′ 12–16′ 16–20′ 20–26′ Over 26′
By construction
Any stitch and glue  510 plywood on frame  243 plywood  199 strip planked  135 cold molded wood  42 composite  31 lapstrake plywood  30 skin on frame  23 glued lapstrake plywood  20 fiberglass  20 radius chine plywood  17 steel chine  16
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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Desperado Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Double Eagle Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood on frame 0
Dragster Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Escapade Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 2″ (7.98 m) plywood on frame 0
Escort Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) plywood on frame 0
Fisherman Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Bottom Jon Boat Grandpa's Archive Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Bottom Jon Boat Vintage Projects Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Flats Flyer Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Fred Murphy Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 2″ (7.98 m) plywood on frame 0
Geronimo Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 1″ (4.9 m) plywood on frame 0
Goliath Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Gung Ho Glen-L Marine Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) plywood on frame 0
Gypsy Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 1″ (6.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Hell Cat Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) plywood on frame 0
Hercules Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 1″ (7.34 m) plywood on frame 0
Hi Rider Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) plywood on frame 0
Honker Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Hunky Dory Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) plywood on frame 0
Islander Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 11″ (7.6 m) plywood on frame 0
Jack Tar Glen-L Marine Power 31′ 1″ (9.47 m) plywood on frame 0
Jackknife Glen-L Marine Power 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) plywood on frame 0
Jean Pierre Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 11″ (8.2 m) plywood on frame 0
Jet Cat Glen-L Marine Power 14′ 2″ (4.32 m) plywood on frame 0
Jet Setter Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 3″ (6.17 m) plywood on frame 0
Jiffy V-22 Arch Davis Design Power 22′ 6″ (6.86 m) plywood on frame 0
Jolly Roger Glen-L Marine Power 27′ 9″ (8.46 m) plywood on frame 0
Jon Boat Grandpa's Archive Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Jubilee Glen-L Marine Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) plywood on frame 0
Key West Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Kingfisher Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Kingpin Glen-L Marine Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) plywood on frame 0
Kokanee Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 6″ (6.25 m) plywood on frame 0
Kona Kai Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 6″ (7.47 m) plywood on frame 0
L Capitan Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 3″ (5.26 m) plywood on frame 0
L Dorado Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) plywood on frame 0
La Paz 22 Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 1″ (6.73 m) plywood on frame 0
Lazy Daze Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Little Hunk Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) plywood on frame 0
Lucky Pierre Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 11″ (7.9 m) plywood on frame 0
Mackinaw Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 6″ (6.25 m) plywood on frame 0
Mai Tai Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 2″ (7.06 m) plywood on frame 0
Marissa 18 B&B Yacht Designs Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Mark Twain Series Glen-L Marine Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) plywood on frame 0
Mist Miss Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) plywood on frame 0
Monsoon Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 3″ (6.78 m) plywood on frame 0
Nimrod Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Nomad Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Nor'wester Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 8″ (7.82 m) plywood on frame 0
Nordcoaster Glen-L Marine Power 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) plywood on frame 0
Noyo Trawler Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 1″ (7.34 m) plywood on frame 0
Odyssea Glen-L Marine Power 35′ 8″ (10.87 m) plywood on frame 0
Olympian 23 Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 2″ (7.06 m) plywood on frame 0
Outer Banks 20 B&B Yacht Designs Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood on frame 0
Outer Banks 24 B&B Yacht Designs Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood on frame 0
Outer Banks 26 B&B Yacht Designs Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Outrage Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 5″ (5 m) plywood on frame 0
Overniter Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) plywood on frame 0
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

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.