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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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All Glen-L Marine  287 Benford Design Group  147 Devlin  142 Bateau  141 Chesapeake Light Craft  121 Dudley Dix Yacht Design  90 BCA Demco  64 Grandpa's Archive  54 Woods Designs  46 Boatkits  41 John Welsford  36 B&B Yacht Designs  35 Newfound Woodworks  32 Båtritningar  32 Modern Wooden Boat  21 Bowdidge Marine Designs  21 Duck Trap Woodworking  20 Geodesic Airolite Boats  19 Butler Projects  18 Stevenson Projects  16 Spirited Designs  16 Ashes Still Water Boats  15 White Salmon Boat Works  14 Vintage Projects  13 Bartender Boats  13 Woodenwidget  13 Bruce Roberts  12 Arch Davis Design  12 Plyboat  11 Response Marine  11 B&G Yacht Design  10 Salt Boatworks  9 Andrew Walters Design  9 Steve Killing  9 Dillon Racing  8 Bedard Yacht Design  8 Long Lake Wooden Boats  6 Unik Yachts  5 James Bosman  5 Iain Oughtred  4 Selway Fisher Design  3 Manta Marine Design  3 John Spencer  2 William D. Jackson  2 John Farlow  2 Roger Fletcher  1 Nexus Marine  1 Sande  1 Laurent Giles  1 U-Fab Boats  1 Forest and Stream  1 Build-A-Boat  1 The Cardboard Boat Book  1 Echo-Craft  1 Phil Bolger  1 Pygmy Boats  1 Jim Michalak  1 Spira International  1 Ray Speck  1 Albert Strange  1 Yannick Maignien  1 Niel Shelton  1 David Rogers  1 Iver Franzen  1 Jim Norman  1 Daniel Berg  1 Gary Dierking  1 P&F Yacht Design  1 Philip Rhodes  1 Jack Holt  1 Ron Given  1 Ian Proctor  1 George Cockshott  1
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Any stitch and glue  510 plywood on frame  243 plywood  199 strip planked  135 cold molded wood  42 composite  31 lapstrake plywood  30 skin on frame  23 glued lapstrake plywood  20 fiberglass  20 radius chine plywood  17 steel chine  16
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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
17' 2" Navigator Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) strip planked with stitch and glue 0
17' 4" Trekker Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) strip planked with stitch and glue 0
17' 8" Orion Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 8″ (5.39 m) strip planked with stitch and glue 0
17' Ausflugsboot Boatkits Power 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
17' Disko Bay Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Fire Star Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Kanu Boatkits Paddle 5.28 m (17′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
17' Lapstrake Canoe Duck Trap Woodworking Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) lapstrake 0
17' Motorboot Boatkits Power 5.24 m (17′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
17' Rangeley Double Ender Newfound Woodworks Row 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Rangeley Lake Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Ruderkanu Boatkits Paddle 5.2 m (17′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
17' Sea Wolf Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Spirit Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Traveler Newfound Woodworks Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
18 ft Canoe Yawl Iota , Catboat or Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) cold moulded 0
18 ft Cat Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 0
18 ft Flat Bottom 492 Response Marine Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) aluminum 0
18 ft Texas Skiff Benford Design Group Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood bottom with batten seam topsides 0
18.5 ft Shallow V 550 Response Marine Power 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) aluminum 0
18' 2" White Guide Newfound Woodworks Paddle 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) strip planked 0
18' 4" North Star Newfound Woodworks Paddle 18′ 4″ (5.59 m) strip planked 0
18' 5" Liz Pulling/Sculling Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) strip planked 0
18' Jolle Boatkits Power 5.48 m (18′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
18' Seecruiser Boatkits Power 5.59 m (18′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
19 ft Cr. Cat, Slp, Lug Slp, Yawl Scrimshaw Benford Design Group Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked 0
19 ft Gunkholer Catspaw Benford Design Group Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
19 ft Sailing Dory Butler Projects Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
19 ft V Hull 572 Response Marine Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) aluminum 0
1932 Twelve Dollar Boat Vintage Projects Row n/a n/a 0
20 ft Cat Joy or Tug Yacht Benford Design Group Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
20 ft False Creek Ferry or Friday Harbor Ferry Benford Design Group Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood 0
20 ft Gaff Sloop Ragnar or Marconi Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) cold moulded 0
20 ft Supply Boat Båten or Lake Union Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked 0
20 ft Trimaran Grandpa's Archive Multihull 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood on frame 0
20 ft V Hull 559 Response Marine Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) aluminum 0
20 ft V Hull 600 Response Marine Power 20′ 1″ (6.12 m) aluminum 0
21 ft Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) C-Flex fibreglass 0
21' Garvey-Flex-Boot Boatkits Power 6.54 m (21′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
22 ft Cruising Cat or Topsail Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) cold moulded or Airex cored fibreglass 0
22 ft Gunkholer Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) carvel planked or plywood 0
22 ft Knockabout or Lug Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
23 ft Canoe Yawl Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
23 ft Knockabout, Lug Slp., Mtrs'lr. Sourdough Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood 0
23 ft Utility Boat Benford Design Group Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood bottom with cold moulded topsides 0
24 ft Barge/Shop Benford Design Group Other 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) n/a 0
24 ft Friday Harbor Ferry Benford Design Group Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
24 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) n/a 0
25 ft (7.62m) Tug Yacht Benford Design Group Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) steel chine 0
25 ft Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood bottom with cold moulded topsides 0
25 ft Fantail Steam Launch Beverley Benford Design Group Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) cold moulded or strip planked 0
25 ft Gaff Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) carvel planked 0
25 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) cold moulded 0
25 ft Planing Trawler Benford Design Group Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
25' Motorboot Boatkits Power 7.75 m (25′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
26 ft 3 in Cruising Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
26 ft Day Boat Benford Design Group Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood 0
26 ft Deadrise Boat or Trawler Yacht Benford Design Group Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) carvel planked or plywood 0
26 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded 0
26 ft Raised Deck Twin Keel Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 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.