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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
Jessy 17 B&B Yacht Designs Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Jetabout 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
John's Sharpie Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 18′ 1″ (5.51 m) stitch and glue 0
Laguna Madre 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Lichen 20 Devlin Sail 19′ 7″ (5.97 m) stitch and glue 0
Linnet 16 Woods Designs Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Lit'l Coot 18 Bilge Keel Devlin Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Lit'l Coot 18 Full Keel Devlin Sail 17′ 10″ (5.45 m) stitch and glue 0
Mangusta 20 Bateau Power 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Mill Creek 16.5 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) stitch and glue 0
Moschino BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Naiade BCA Demco Paddle 5.35 m (17′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Naskeag 16 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 16′ 2″ (4.92 m) stitch and glue 0
Noddy 16 Devlin Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Northwest Passage Long Lake Wooden Boats Paddle 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Northwest Passage XL Long Lake Wooden Boats Paddle 18′ 8″ (5.69 m) stitch and glue 0
Oarling II 17 Devlin Row 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Ondina BCA Demco Paddle 5.4 m (17′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Open Classic 17 Bateau Power 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Orca 17 Bateau Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.17 m) stitch and glue 0
Outboard Dory 16 Bateau Power 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) stitch and glue 0
Outboard Dory 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Outboard Skiff 17 Bateau Power 16′ 11″ (5.16 m) stitch and glue 0
Outboard Skiff 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Outboard Skiff 19 Bateau Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Bassboat Devlin Power 18′ 4″ (5.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Center Console Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Shrimper Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Sportster Devlin Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Petrel Sport SG Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 16 Bateau Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Pilot 19 Bateau Power 18′ 11″ (5.77 m) stitch and glue 0
PowerYak - Electric Kayak Glen-L Marine Paddle 16′ 10″ (5.13 m) stitch and glue 0
PUCK 550 BCA Demco Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 16 Bateau Multihull 16′ 5″ (5 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 16 Woods Designs Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Raju 500 Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Rio Drift Boat Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Scaup 18 Devlin Power 18′ 7″ (5.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Sculldugery II 17 Devlin Power 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Sculling Skiff Glen-L Marine Row 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Sea Kayak Glen-L Marine Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Sea Kayak Two Glen-L Marine Paddle 19′ 9″ (6.02 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater 16 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 2″ (4.92 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater 17 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) stitch and glue 0
Skoota 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 4″ (5.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Skoota 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.6 m (18′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Sponge Docks Skiff 19 Bedard Yacht Design Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Sport Boat 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Stitch & Glue Night Heron Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Surge Coastal Rower 1CX Rowing Boat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 8″ (5.99 m) stitch and glue 0
Texas Sled 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Thalas 16 BCA Demco Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Tikino 16 Modern Wooden Boat Multihull 5.18 m (17′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Tricky Five BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Trika 540 by Klaus Metz Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Tug Along Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 2″ (5.54 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.