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.

By builder
By type
By length
By construction
Sort

371 boats

Compare two boats
Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Cruisette Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Dentex 420 Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Didi Sport 15 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) radius chine plywood 0
Diva Kayak B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Dory Glen-L Marine Row 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood 0
Dory 12 Bateau Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
DP14 BCA Demco Sail 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Draggarnseka no. 32 Båtritningar Row 4.04 m (13′ 3″) n/a 0
Driade BCA Demco Row 4.44 m (14′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Drifter Glen-L Marine Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Drifter 15 Devlin Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) stitch and glue 0
Duck Skiff 15 Bateau Power 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Duckboat Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Duckling 14 Rower Devlin Row 14′ 5″ (4.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Duckling 14 Sail Devlin Sail 14′ 5″ (4.38 m) stitch and glue 0
EdgeTracker 365 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
EdgeTracker 426 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
Egret 15 Devlin Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Express Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) n/a 0
F1430 Sit-On-Top Kayak Bedard Yacht Design Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Fafnir John Welsford Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Falcon Grandpa's Archive Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Fast Skiff 12 Bateau Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 14 Low Sheer Bateau Power 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) stitch and glue 0
Fife Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Fisher Prospector Selway Fisher Design Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Fisherman Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Bottom Jon Boat Grandpa's Archive Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Bottom Jon Boat Vintage Projects Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Flat Skiff 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Flateka no. 12 Båtritningar Row 4.31 m (14′ 2″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 23 Båtritningar Row 4.12 m (13′ 6″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 31 Båtritningar Row 4.29 m (14′ 1″) n/a 0
Flateka pram no. 24 Båtritningar Row 3.93 m (12′ 11″) n/a 0
Flateka pram no. 26 Båtritningar Row 4.03 m (13′ 3″) n/a 0
Flats River Skiff 14 Salt Boatworks Power 13′ 8″ (4.17 m) plywood 0
Flats River Skiff 15 Salt Boatworks Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Flyfisher 13 Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Foldak Woodenwidget Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Glen-L 12 Glen-L Marine Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 13 Glen-L Marine Sail 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 14 Glen-L Marine Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 15 Glen-L Marine Sail 15′ 1″ (4.6 m) plywood on frame 0
Golden Bay Setnet John Welsford Sail 3.9 m (12′ 10″) plywood 0
Gozzo 4m BCA Demco Row 4 m (13′ 1″) strip planked 0
Great Island Rowboat Duck Trap Woodworking Row 12′ 10″ (3.91 m) n/a 0
Harbor Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) lapstrake 0
Hell Cat Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) plywood on frame 0
Hiawatha 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 14 Bateau Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Honker 15 Bateau Row 14′ 10″ (4.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Houdini John Welsford Sail 4.1 m (13′ 5″) plywood 0
Huck Finn Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Huron Glen-L Marine Paddle 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) plywood 0
Indian River Skiff 15 Bateau Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Inlet Runner 14 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 13′ 11″ (4.24 m) plywood garvey 0
International Twelve Foot Dinghy George Cockshott Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 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.