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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
Sea Kayak Two Glen-L Marine Paddle 19′ 9″ (6.02 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater 14 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 6″ (4.43 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Shearwater 16 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 2″ (4.92 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater 16 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 2″ (4.92 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Shearwater 17 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater 17 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Shearwater Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) stitch and glue 0
Shearwater Sport Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Shell Star White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Sirenetta BCA Demco Paddle 3.01 m (9′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
Small Fry White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 11′ 6″ (3.51 m) strip planked 0
SnowShoe 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
SnowShoe 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
SnowShoe 16 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) skin on frame 0
Snowshoe Explorer 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Snowshoe Lassie Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle n/a skin on frame 0
Snowshoe Traveler 18 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) skin on frame 0
Solo Day Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Solo Day Tripper Steve Killing Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Solo Pack Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) strip planked 0
Solo Packette Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) strip planked 0
Solo Quick Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
Solo Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Stillaguamish Tribe 26 Foot Canoe Devlin Paddle 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Stillaguamish Tribe 36 Foot Canoe Devlin Paddle 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) stitch and glue 0
Stitch & Glue Night Heron Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Stripper Glen-L Marine Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Sweet Pea Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle n/a skin on frame 0
Sweet Pea Mark II Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle n/a skin on frame 0
Swift Canoe 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Takalak White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Day Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Quick Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
True North XPD Steve Killing Paddle 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) strip planked 0
Twin Star White Salmon Boat Works Paddle n/a strip planked 0
Venture Steve Killing Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
Wahkeena White Salmon Boat Works Paddle n/a strip planked 0
Waterman 12 Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 10 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Wood Duck 12 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 12 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Wood Duck 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 13′ 9″ (4.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 14 Hybrid Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 13′ 9″ (4.19 m) stitch and glue with strip deck 0
Wood Duck Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duckling 8 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 8′ 0″ (2.44 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.