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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
Minuetto 650 SPRINT BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Mira Woods Designs Multihull 10.65 m (34′ 11″) plywood 0
Mirage Woods Designs Multihull 11 m (36′ 1″) plywood 0
Montana Guide Boat Butler Projects Row 11′ 6″ (3.51 m) plywood 0
Montana Pram Butler Projects Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) plywood 0
Motor Canoe Butler Projects Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Nesting Expedition Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) plywood 0
Norwegian Gunning Dory Butler Projects Row 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) plywood 0
Norwegian Pram 10 Butler Projects Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Norwegian Pram 8 Butler Projects Sail 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Origami Woodenwidget Row 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) plywood 0
Pacific Troller Dory Butler Projects Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Paper Tiger Ron Given Multihull 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Pathfinder John Welsford Sail n/a plywood 0
Peace Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 0
Pelegrin John Welsford Sail 5.15 m (16′ 11″) plywood 0
Penguin John Welsford Sail 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Penguin Class Dinghy Philip Rhodes Sail 11′ 5″ (3.48 m) plywood 0
Pilgrim John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Ply-Flier Stevenson Projects Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Plywood Dory Butler Projects Row n/a plywood 0
Pocket Cruiser Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) plywood 0
POD Dory Grandpa's Archive Row 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood 0
Power Drifter Glen-L Marine Row n/a plywood 0
Pro Tunnel Dillon Racing Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) plywood 0
Pro Vee Dillon Racing Power 12′ 7″ (3.84 m) plywood 0
Rock Creek Drifter Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Romany Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
Roof Rack John Welsford Row 2.18 m (7′ 2″) plywood 0
Rustica 570 BCA Demco Power 5.7 m (18′ 8″) plywood 0
Salish 28 Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Sande Ace Sande Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) plywood 0
Saturday Night Special John Welsford Sail 4.47 m (14′ 8″) plywood 0
Saylon 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
SCAMP John Welsford Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood 0
Schizzo BCA Demco Power 4.5 m (14′ 9″) plywood 0
Scraps John Welsford Row 1.89 m (6′ 2″) plywood 0
Sherpa John Welsford Row 2.75 m (9′ 0″) plywood 0
Silver 45 BCA Demco Power 4.5 m (14′ 9″) plywood 0
Silver 55 BCA Demco Power 5.55 m (18′ 3″) plywood 0
Skoota 28 Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Skoota 36 Woods Designs Multihull 11 m (36′ 1″) plywood 0
Sphera BCA Demco Sail 9.94 m (32′ 7″) plywood 0
Sport C Tunnel Dillon Racing Power 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) plywood 0
Sportfish 570 BCA Demco Power 5.7 m (18′ 8″) plywood 0
Sportfoil Stevenson Projects Power n/a plywood 0
Spray 22 Bruce Roberts Sail 24′ 0″ (7.31 m) plywood 0
Strike 16 Woods Designs Multihull 4.75 m (15′ 7″) plywood 0
Strike 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 0
Strike 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Strike 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
Sundowner John Welsford Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Super Huck Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
Super Skipjack Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood 0
Surfsong Woods Designs Multihull 8.4 m (27′ 7″) plywood 0
Swaggie John Welsford Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Sweet Pea John Welsford Sail 5.3 m (17′ 5″) plywood 0
T-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Tamar 31 Woods Designs Multihull 9.5 m (31′ 2″) plywood 0
Tender Behind John Welsford Row 2.22 m (7′ 3″) 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.