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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
Bay River Skiff B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Belhaven 19 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Benford 30 Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
Biloxi Dinghy Vintage Projects Sail n/a n/a 0
Blivit 13 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) skin on frame 0
Blue Moon Grandpa's Archive Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Bora Bora 28 B&G Yacht Design Sail 8.53 m (28′ 0″) plywood 0
Breeze Baby Grandpa's Archive Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
BRIO 555 BCA Demco Sail 5.55 m (18′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
Buckboard Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood on frame 0
Bull's Eye Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) stitch and glue 0
Caledonia Yawl Iain Oughtred Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Cape Canso 23 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 22′ 5″ (6.84 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape Charles 32 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 31′ 5″ (9.57 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape Charles 32TC Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 31′ 5″ (9.57 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape Deseada 36TC Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 36′ 1″ (11 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape Henry 21 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape May 25 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 25′ 4″ (7.73 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Caravelle 16 Bateau Sail 14′ 4″ (4.37 m) stitch and glue 0
Cargo 50 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 52′ 3″ (15.92 m) multi chine steel 0
Caribbea 30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 30′ 2″ (9.2 m) multi chine plywood 0
Cat Boat 12 Bateau Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Cat Ketch 17 Bateau Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Catboat Andrew Walters Design Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
CC19 Dayboat Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cherub John Spencer Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Chessie Flyer Glen-L Marine Sail 26′ 11″ (8.2 m) plywood on frame 0
Christmas Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake 0
Classic 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Classic 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
CLC Kayak/Canoe SailRig Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Coaster Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 2″ (7.67 m) plywood on frame 0
Coquette 39 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 39′ 4″ (12 m) multi chine plywood 0
Core Sound 15 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 2″ (4.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 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
Corsair 11 Bateau Sail 10′ 9″ (3.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Corsair 13 Bateau Sail 12′ 10″ (3.91 m) stitch and glue 0
Crescent Grandpa's Archive Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood on frame 0
Cruising Sloop Butler Projects Sail 18′ 1″ (5.51 m) plywood 0
CW 975 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) multi chine plywood 0
Daniels Boat John Welsford Sail 3.2 m (10′ 6″) plywood 0
Daysailer 24 BCA Demco Sail 7.31 m (24′ 0″) strip planked 0
Daysailer 30 BCA Demco Sail 9 m (29′ 6″) strip planked 0
Diapason 750 BCA Demco Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood 0
Didi 120 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 39′ 4″ (12 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 23 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 27 Retro Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 27′ 5″ (8.35 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 28 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 27′ 7″ (8.4 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 29 Retro Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 29′ 4″ (8.95 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 34 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 34′ 5″ (10.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 38/40 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 37′ 9″ (11.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 40cr Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 39′ 7″ (12.07 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi 950 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 31′ 2″ (9.5 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 MG30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 31′ 6″ (9.6 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Mini Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine 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.