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.

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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Most logs Name A–Z Shortest first Longest first

72 boats

Compare two boats

Design	Plans from	Type	LOA	Construction
Southwester Dory	Chesapeake Light Craft	Sail	18′ 10″ (5.74 m)	lapstrake plywood
Sport Boat 18	Bateau	Sail	18′ 0″ (5.49 m)	stitch and glue
Super Skipjack	Stevenson Projects	Sail	17′ 0″ (5.18 m)	plywood
Swaggie	John Welsford	Sail	5.5 m (18′ 1″)	plywood
Sweet Pea	John Welsford	Sail	5.3 m (17′ 5″)	plywood
Tango	Glen-L Marine	Sail	18′ 6″ (5.64 m)	plywood on frame
TLC 19	Dudley Dix Yacht Design	Sail	19′ 0″ (5.79 m)	fiberglass
Vagabond 18	Bateau	Sail	18′ 2″ (5.54 m)	stitch and glue
Vagabond Plus 20	Bateau	Sail	19′ 8″ (5.99 m)	stitch and glue
Walkabout	John Welsford	Sail	5 m (16′ 5″)	plywood
Waterlust Sailing Canoe	Chesapeake Light Craft	Sail	17′ 0″ (5.18 m)	stitch and glue
Weekender	Stevenson Projects	Sail	19′ 6″ (5.94 m)	plywood

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.