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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
Didi Mini Mk3 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Sport 15 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) radius chine plywood 0
Dinghy 360 BCA Demco Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Dix 38 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 38′ 5″ (11.7 m) radius chine steel 0
Dix 38 Pilot Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 38′ 5″ (11.7 m) radius chine steel 0
Dix 43 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 43′ 10″ (13.35 m) radius chine steel 0
Dix 43 HD Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 43′ 10″ (13.35 m) radius chine aluminum 0
Dix 43 Pilot Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 43′ 10″ (13.35 m) radius chine steel 0
Dix 57 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 57′ 0″ (17.37 m) radius chine steel or aluminum 0
Dix 59 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 59′ 0″ (17.98 m) radius chine steel 0
Dix 61 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 60′ 8″ (18.5 m) fiberglass 0
Dix 64 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 64′ 0″ (19.51 m) multi chine steel 0
Dix 65 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 65′ 0″ (19.81 m) radius chine steel 0
Dixi Dinghy 8 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 8′ 2″ (2.5 m) stitch and glue 0
DP14 BCA Demco Sail 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Duckling 14 Sail Devlin Sail 14′ 5″ (4.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Duckling 17 Sailing Version Devlin Sail 17′ 3″ (5.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Duo 10 Woods Designs Sail 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
EC-22 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) n/a 0
Egret 15 Devlin Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Eider 17 Devlin Sail 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Ensenada 25 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Escapist 24 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Expedition Sailing Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Faering Cruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 22′ 6″ (6.86 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Fafnir John Welsford Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Falcon Grandpa's Archive Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Fancy Free Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Fast Eddy 35 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 35′ 4″ (10.76 m) lapstrake aluminum 0
Feather Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) fiberglass 0
FireBug John Spencer Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
Foamee Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) fiberglass 0
Francis Drake Glen-L Marine Sail 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) cold molded wood 0
Full Moon 27 Iver Franzen Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) carvel 0
Giormax BCA Demco Sail 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Glen-L 10 Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 11″ (3.02 m) plywood 0
Glen-L 11 Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 2″ (3.4 m) strip planked 0
Glen-L 12 Glen-L Marine Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 13 Glen-L Marine Sail 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 14 Glen-L Marine Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 15 Glen-L Marine Sail 15′ 1″ (4.6 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
Glen-L 21CB Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 25 - Fiberglass Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) fiberglass 0
Glen-L 25 - Plywood Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 30 Glen-L Marine Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) cold molded wood 0
Glen-L 36 Series Glen-L Marine Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) cold molded wood 0
Glen-L 6.9 Glen-L Marine Sail 22′ 7″ (6.88 m) fiberglass 0
Glen-L 7.9 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 11″ (7.9 m) fiberglass 0
Golden Bay Setnet John Welsford Sail 3.9 m (12′ 10″) plywood 0
Gozzo 6.50m BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Haiku 700 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.2 m (20′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Hanzeyawl Manta Marine Design Sail 5.9 m (19′ 4″) n/a 0
Hirundo 750 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 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
Hope of Glory 38 Devlin Sail 38′ 4″ (11.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Houdini John Welsford Sail 4.1 m (13′ 5″) plywood 0
Hout Bay 30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 30′ 2″ (9.2 m) radius chine steel 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.