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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
Chesapeake Triple Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chinook 21 Devlin Power 20′ 9″ (6.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 17 Bateau Power 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 19 Bateau Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 19 Express Bateau Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic Delta 29 P&F Yacht Design Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Cocktail Class Racer Chesapeake Light Craft Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Coho Pygmy Boats Paddle 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Colibri Plyboat Row 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Colvos Passage Long Lake Wooden Boats Paddle 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Console Skiff Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) stitch and glue 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
Crayfish 8 Woods Designs Row 2.44 m (8′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
CS-20 Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 10″ (6.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Curlew 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Curlew 24 Devlin Power 24′ 10″ (7.57 m) stitch and glue 0
Czarinna 30 Devlin Power 29′ 10″ (9.09 m) stitch and glue 0
Czarinna 35 Devlin Power 35′ 2″ (10.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Czarinna 43 Devlin Power 42′ 3″ (12.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Deckster Woodenwidget Row 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Dentex 420 Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Devlin 37 Devlin Power 37′ 4″ (11.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 360 BCA Demco Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 5 Bateau Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Dingo Plyboat Row 2 m (6′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Dinky Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 0″ (2.13 m) stitch and glue 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
Diva Kayak B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Dixi Dinghy 8 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 8′ 2″ (2.5 m) stitch and glue 0
Dory 12 Bateau Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Down East Cruiser 23 Bateau Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Down East Cruiser 25 Bateau Power 24′ 11″ (7.61 m) stitch and glue 0
DP14 BCA Demco Sail 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Dragonfly Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Driade BCA Demco Row 4.44 m (14′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Drift Pram Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 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
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
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
Dunlin 22 Cruiser Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Dunlin 22 Pilothouse Devlin Power 21′ 7″ (6.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Duo 10 Woods Designs Sail 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Dynamo Too 38 Devlin Power 38′ 9″ (11.81 m) stitch and glue 0
Dynamo Too 45 Devlin Power 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Dyno Jet Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Dyno Mite Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
E-Cat 24 Bateau Multihull 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) stitch and glue 0
Egret 15 Devlin Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 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.