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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
Crayfish 8 Woods Designs Row 2.44 m (8′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Daniels Boat John Welsford Sail 3.2 m (10′ 6″) plywood 0
Deckster Woodenwidget Row 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 360 BCA Demco Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 5 Bateau Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Dingo Plyboat Row 2 m (6′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Dinky Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 0″ (2.13 m) stitch and glue 0
Dixi Dinghy 8 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 8′ 2″ (2.5 m) stitch and glue 0
Dory Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) lapstrake 0
Drift Pram Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Duck Boat Butler Projects Row 11′ 10″ (3.61 m) plywood 0
Duo 10 Woods Designs Sail 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Dyno Jet Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Dyno Mite Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Eastport Nesting Pram Chesapeake Light Craft Row 7′ 9″ (2.36 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Eastport Pram Chesapeake Light Craft Row 7′ 9″ (2.36 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Eight Ball Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood on frame 0
Eight Ball S&G Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
EZ Tunnel Dillon Racing Power 10′ 10″ (3.3 m) plywood 0
Fast Garvey 10 Bateau Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Feather Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) fiberglass 0
FireBug John Spencer Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
Fish Hook John Welsford Power 3.05 m (10′ 0″) plywood 0
Flat Skiff 12 Bateau Power 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Flats River Skiff 12 Salt Boatworks Power 11′ 8″ (3.56 m) plywood 0
Fliptail Woodenwidget Row 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) skin on frame 0
Foamee Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) fiberglass 0
Fold Up Glen-L Marine Row 10′ 1″ (3.07 m) plywood 0
Giormax BCA Demco Sail 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Glass Bottom Glen-L Marine Other 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) stitch and glue 0
Glen-L 10 Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 11″ (3.02 m) plywood 0
Glen-L 11 Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 2″ (3.4 m) strip planked 0
Goldfish Plyboat Paddle 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Devlin Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Grace's Tender Arch Davis Design Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Guppy 9 Devlin Row 9′ 1″ (2.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Handy Andy Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Happy Hour Plyboat Paddle 2.8 m (9′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
Imp Glen-L Marine Row 9′ 9″ (2.97 m) plywood 0
Jiffy 9-7 Arch Davis Design Power 9′ 7″ (2.92 m) plywood 0
Johnboat Butler Projects Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Jon Boat / Garvey 11 Bateau Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Junior BCA Demco Sail 2.9 m (9′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
Ke-Pau Glen-L Marine Row 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) plywood on frame 0
Kid-Row Glen-L Marine Row 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Kidyak Glen-L Marine Paddle 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher Grandpa's Archive Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) plywood on frame 0
Kiwi PDR John Welsford Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
L Gato Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood on frame 0
Lake Union Swift Chesapeake Light Craft Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Lit'l Petrel 9 Devlin Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Little Fellow Vintage Projects Power 6′ 6″ (1.98 m) n/a 0
Lobsterman's Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) lapstrake 0
Long Weekend Plyboat Paddle 3.65 m (12′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Lumberyard Punt Duck Trap Woodworking Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Maine Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 9′ 7″ (2.92 m) lapstrake 0
Matunuck Surf Kayak Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 8′ 6″ (2.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Mickey Mouse Plyboat Row 2.4 m (7′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Micro Petrel Devlin Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 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.