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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
Adelie 16 Bateau Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
AF4 Jim Michalak Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 0
Alenu 540 Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5.4 m (17′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Aleutesque Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) strip planked 0
All Water Seventeen Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Alpha 2 Glen-L Marine Sail 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 0
Angler's Big Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) strip planked 0
Angler's Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
Angus Expedition Rowboat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Angus RowCruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Annapolis Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 17′ 8″ (5.39 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Annapolis Wherry Tandem Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 10″ (6.05 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Aqua Cat Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) plywood on frame 0
Athelas Long Lake Wooden Boats Row 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Audeen Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 3″ (4.95 m) plywood on frame 0
Autumn Leaves Canoe Yawl Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) plywood 0
AWOL John Welsford Sail 5.05 m (16′ 7″) plywood 0
Barrelback 19 Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 1″ (5.82 m) cold molded wood 0
Bartender 19 Bartender Boats Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood on frame 0
Bay Pilot 18 Arch Davis Design Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Bay Skipper 18 Devlin Row 18′ 1″ (5.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Bee 16 Woods Designs Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Belhaven 19 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Bette 500 HV Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Bette 500 LV Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Biscayne 18 Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) cold molded wood 0
Blekingseka no. 2 Båtritningar Row 4.91 m (16′ 1″) n/a 0
Blue Moon Grandpa's Archive Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Bluefin Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) plywood on frame 0
Bo Jest Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 10″ (5.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Bonanza Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood on frame 0
Bravado Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood on frame 0
BRIO 555 BCA Demco Sail 5.55 m (18′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
Broadwater 5.1 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 16′ 9″ (5.11 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
Caledonia Yawl Iain Oughtred Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Candlefish 16 Devlin Power 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Candlefish 16 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Candlefish 16 Casting Deck Chesapeake Light Craft Power 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Candlefish 18 Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) stitch and glue 0
Candlefish 18 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) stitch and glue 0
Carioca Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood on frame 0
Carolina Bay 17 Salt Boatworks Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood 0
Cat Ketch 17 Bateau Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
CC19 Dayboat Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Chat 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 4″ (5.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Chat 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.6 m (18′ 4″) plywood 0
Chesapeake 17 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 17LT Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 11″ (5.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 18 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Chinook Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood on frame 0
Clarence River Dory John Welsford Power 6.04 m (19′ 10″) plywood 0
Classic 17 Bateau Power 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 19 Bateau Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 19 Express Bateau Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Coho Pygmy Boats Paddle 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Columbia Star White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Colvos Passage Long Lake Wooden Boats Paddle 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 18 Salt Boatworks Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 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.