boatbuildlog

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
Oysta 25 Devlin Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Panga 20 Bateau Power 20′ 3″ (6.17 m) stitch and glue 0
Panga 22 Bateau Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Panga 25 Bateau Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 20 Devlin Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Bassboat Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Center Console Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Shrimper Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 22 Bateau Power 21′ 10″ (6.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Pilot 21 Bateau Power 20′ 11″ (6.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Princess Sharpie 22 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
River Crawler 22 Devlin Power 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Saltaspiaggia Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.1 m (20′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Sanpiera BCA Demco Sail 6.98 m (22′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
Scout 20 Devlin Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 22 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 22 Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Fisher Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Traditional Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond 23 Bateau Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 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.