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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
Peeler Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Power 15′ 2″ (4.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Bassboat Devlin Power 18′ 4″ (5.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Center Console Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Shrimper Devlin Power 18′ 5″ (5.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 18 Sportster Devlin Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 20 Devlin Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Bassboat Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Center Console Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Pelicano 23 Shrimper Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 16 Bateau Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 22 Bateau Power 21′ 10″ (6.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Pilot 19 Bateau Power 18′ 11″ (5.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Pilot 21 Bateau Power 20′ 11″ (6.38 m) stitch and glue 0
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
Pyladian 31 Devlin Power 30′ 6″ (9.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Red Salmon 33 Devlin Power 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Rhode Runner - The CLC Runabout Chesapeake Light Craft Power 14′ 9″ (4.5 m) stitch and glue 0
River Crawler 22 Devlin Power 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Rover 29 Cruiser Devlin Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Rover 29 Halibut Devlin Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Rover 29 Troller Devlin Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Scarlet Macaw 33 Devlin Power 32′ 11″ (10.03 m) stitch and glue 0
Scaup 16 Devlin Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Scaup 18 Devlin Power 18′ 7″ (5.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Scout 20 Devlin Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Sculldugery 15 Devlin Power 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Sculldugery II 17 Devlin Power 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Silver 333 BCA Demco Power 3.33 m (10′ 11″) 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
Sponge Docks Skiff 19 Bedard Yacht Design Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 22 Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 22 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Fisher Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Traditional Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Texas Sled 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Trawler 28 Bateau Power 28′ 2″ (8.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Tubby Tugboat Glen-L Marine Power 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Tug Along Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 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
Wild thing Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Zipper Andrew Walters Design Power 11′ 0″ (3.35 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.