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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
All Water Thirteen Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) strip planked 0
Amanda B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Amp Eater Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Angler's Day Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Angler's Pack Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) strip planked 0
Angus Oxford Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 15′ 10″ (4.83 m) stitch and glue 0
Argie 15 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Arrow Grandpa's Archive Power 13′ 1″ (3.99 m) plywood on frame 0
Arrow 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Athey Long Lake Wooden Boats Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Bass Boat Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Bass Boat Stevenson Projects Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Bay River Skiff B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Bella 16 Devlin Row 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Bigakat 12 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 12′ 2″ (3.72 m) strip planked 0
Bingo Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 8″ (3.86 m) stitch and glue 0
Birder Decked Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Brant II 14 Devlin Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Brant III Chesapeake Light Craft Power 14′ 3″ (4.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Brant III 15 Devlin Power 14′ 3″ (4.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Blekingseka no. 1 Båtritningar Row 4.6 m (15′ 1″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 13 Båtritningar Row 4.49 m (14′ 9″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 14 Båtritningar Row 4.28 m (14′ 1″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 17 Båtritningar Row 4.31 m (14′ 2″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 4 Båtritningar Row 4.58 m (15′ 0″) n/a 0
Blivit 13 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) skin on frame 0
Blue Bill Grandpa's Archive Paddle 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) skin on frame 0
Bluebill 12 Devlin Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Bluebill 12 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Breeze Baby Grandpa's Archive Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Cackler 14 Devlin Power 14′ 3″ (4.36 m) stitch and glue 0
Cackler 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 14′ 3″ (4.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Can-Yak Glen-L Marine Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Candlefish 13 Devlin Power 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Candlefish 13 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Caravelle 16 Bateau Sail 14′ 4″ (4.37 m) stitch and glue 0
Catboat Andrew Walters Design Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
Celerity Glen-L Marine Power 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) plywood on frame 0
Chenoa 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Chenoa 14 Bateau Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Chenoa 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Cherub John Spencer Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Chesapeake 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 16 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 16LT Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 6″ (4.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Chester Yawl Chesapeake Light Craft Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Chippewa Glen-L Marine Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) cold molded wood 0
Christmas Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake 0
Chum Grandpa's Archive Power 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood on frame 0
Clark Fork Drifter Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Class CD Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) plywood on frame 0
Classic 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Classic 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Console Skiff Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 15 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 2″ (4.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Corsair 13 Bateau Sail 12′ 10″ (3.91 m) stitch and glue 0
Cottage Cruiser Steve Killing Paddle 15′ 6″ (4.74 m) strip planked 0
Crackerbox Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Crescent Grandpa's Archive Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood on frame 0
Crispy 440 Modern Wooden Boat Power 4.4 m (14′ 5″) 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.