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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
Cat 22 Bateau Multihull 21′ 6″ (6.55 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Sport Tandem Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 8″ (6.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Triple Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chinook 21 Devlin Power 20′ 9″ (6.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Chunky Dory Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood on frame 0
Classic 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
CLC Gislinge Boat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Coastal Cruiser Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
Coaster Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 2″ (7.67 m) plywood on frame 0
Coastworker 25 Bruce Roberts Power 25′ 7″ (7.8 m) n/a 0
Core Sound 20 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 20 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 21 Salt Boatworks Power 21′ 6″ (6.55 m) plywood 0
Coronado Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 8″ (7.82 m) plywood on frame 0
Crispy 650 Modern Wooden Boat Power 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood on frame 0
Crispy 660 Cabin Modern Wooden Boat Power 6.6 m (21′ 8″) plywood on frame 0
Cuddy Sport Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 1″ (7.34 m) plywood on frame 0
Curlew 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Curlew 24 Devlin Power 24′ 10″ (7.57 m) stitch and glue 0
Daysailer 24 BCA Demco Sail 7.31 m (24′ 0″) strip planked 0
Delta Q Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 11″ (7.6 m) plywood on frame 0
Diapason 750 BCA Demco Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood 0
Didi 23 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Cruise-Mini Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Cruise-Mini Mk3 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Mini Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Mini Mk3 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Double Eagle Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood on frame 0
Down East Cruiser 23 Bateau Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Down East Cruiser 25 Bateau Power 24′ 11″ (7.61 m) stitch and glue 0
Dunlin 22 Cruiser Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Dunlin 22 Pilothouse Devlin Power 21′ 7″ (6.59 m) stitch and glue 0
E-Cat 24 Bateau Multihull 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) stitch and glue 0
Eagle Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) strip planked 0
Eagle 24 Woods Designs Multihull 7.3 m (23′ 11″) plywood 0
EC-22 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) n/a 0
Ensenada 25 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Escapist 24 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Escort Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) plywood on frame 0
Extreme Flats 20 Bateau Power 20′ 4″ (6.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Extreme Flats 22 Bateau Power 22′ 1″ (6.73 m) stitch and glue 0
Faering Cruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 22′ 6″ (6.86 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Fairhaven Flyer 20 Devlin Row 20′ 4″ (6.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Fancy Free Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Fast Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) strip planked 0
Fishing 20 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 20′ 9″ (6.33 m) steel or aluminum 0
Float a Home Grandpa's Archive Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) n/a 0
Gannet 25 Devlin Power 24′ 9″ (7.54 m) stitch and glue 0
General Purpose 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Glen-L 21CB Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 25 - Fiberglass Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) fiberglass 0
Glen-L 25 - Plywood Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 6.9 Glen-L Marine Sail 22′ 7″ (6.88 m) fiberglass 0
Glen-L 7.9 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 11″ (7.9 m) fiberglass 0
Godzilla 22 Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Godzilla 25 Devlin Power 24′ 8″ (7.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Gozzo 6.50m BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Great Auk Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) strip planked 0
GT Cruiser 23 Bateau Power 23′ 6″ (7.16 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.