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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
Power Skiff 12 Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Power Skiff 14 Glen-L Marine Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Pug Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Ranger Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Rhode Runner - The CLC Runabout Chesapeake Light Craft Power 14′ 9″ (4.5 m) stitch and glue 0
Rob Roy Glen-L Marine Paddle 14′ 5″ (4.39 m) stitch and glue 0
RoG 15 Micro-cruiser Bedard Yacht Design Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Row 13 Bateau Row 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Rowme Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 2″ (3.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Sassafras 12 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Sassafras 16 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Scaup 16 Devlin Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Scilly Gig 15 Bateau Row 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Sculldugery 15 Devlin Power 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Sharpie 14 Bateau Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater Sport Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Snow Goose 16 Devlin Power 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Solo Flats Skiff (FS13) Bateau Power 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Sponge Docks Skiff 13 Bedard Yacht Design Power 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Sponge Docks Skiff 16 Bedard Yacht Design Power 15′ 10″ (4.83 m) stitch and glue 0
Strike 15 Woods Designs Multihull 4.5 m (14′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Swift Canoe 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Techně BCA Demco Sail 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Thalas 13 BCA Demco Row 4 m (13′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
V-Bottom Dinghy 12 Bateau Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Volare Console Andrew Walters Design Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Volare Utility Andrew Walters Design Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Waterman 12 Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Weekender 12 Bateau Row 12′ 3″ (3.73 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 12 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 13′ 9″ (4.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Zest 14 Woods Designs Sail 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Zeta 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Zeta 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) 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.