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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
Crispy 520 Modern Wooden Boat Power 5.2 m (17′ 1″) plywood on frame 0
Cruise Control 5.2 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 17′ 1″ (5.21 m) strip plank composite 0
Cruising Sloop Butler Projects Sail 18′ 1″ (5.51 m) plywood 0
CS-20 Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 10″ (6.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Desperado Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Dipper 17 Devlin Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Dipper 19 Devlin Power 18′ 8″ (5.69 m) stitch and glue 0
Dipper 19 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 18′ 8″ (5.69 m) stitch and glue 0
Downeast Double Ender Duck Trap Woodworking n/a 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) n/a 0
Dragonfly Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Dragster Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Driftboat 16s Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Duck Trap Launch Duck Trap Woodworking Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) n/a 0
Duck Trap Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) lapstrake 0
Duckling 17 Devlin Row 17′ 4″ (5.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Duckling 17 Sailing Version Devlin Sail 17′ 3″ (5.27 m) stitch and glue 0
EdgeTracker 487 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood composite 0
Eider 17 Devlin Sail 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Endeavour Steve Killing Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Expedition Sailing Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Expedition Single Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) strip planked 0
Expedition Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) stitch and glue 0
F1830 Sit-On-Top Tandem Kayak Bedard Yacht Design Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 17 Bateau Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 19 Bateau Power 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Flat Chat 16 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood composite 0
Flateka no. 16 Båtritningar Row 4.98 m (16′ 4″) n/a 0
Flateka no. 27 Båtritningar Row 5.06 m (16′ 7″) n/a 0
Flats Flyer Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Flats River Skiff 16 Salt Boatworks Power 16′ 7″ (5.06 m) plywood 0
Flats River Skiff 18 Salt Boatworks Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 0
Flats Stalker 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Freedom 17 Steve Killing Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Freedom 17-9 Steve Killing Paddle 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) strip planked 0
Garnpråm no. 29 Båtritningar Row 5.87 m (19′ 3″) n/a 0
Garvey 17 Bateau Power 16′ 8″ (5.08 m) stitch and glue 0
Garvey 18 Bateau Power 17′ 5″ (5.31 m) stitch and glue 0
Gentry Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) cold molded wood 0
Geronimo Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 1″ (4.9 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 17 Glen-L Marine Sail 17′ 3″ (5.26 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 19 Glen-L Marine Sail 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) plywood on frame 0
Godzilli 16 Devlin Power 16′ 7″ (5.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Goliath Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Gozzo 5.20m BCA Demco Row 5.2 m (17′ 1″) strip planked 0
Grand Diva Kayak B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Great Auk 17 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Greenland Night Heron Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) strip planked 0
Guillemot Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Guillemot "L" Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) strip planked 0
Guillemot "S" Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Gulf Explorer 16 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) epoxy fiberglass plywood composite 0
Gun Dory Butler Projects Row 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
Hanzeyawl Manta Marine Design Sail 5.9 m (19′ 4″) n/a 0
Harbor Master 19 Bateau Power 18′ 9″ (5.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Harbor Master Displacement 19 Bateau Power 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) stitch and glue 0
High-Capacity Great Auk Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) strip planked 0
Hommebåt no. 22 Båtritningar Sail 4.97 m (16′ 4″) n/a 0
Hommebåt no. 25 Båtritningar Sail 6.07 m (19′ 11″) n/a 0
Honker 18 Devlin Power 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 16 Bateau Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 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.