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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
Dix 470 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 46′ 9″ (14.24 m) plywood 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
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
Echo 38 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) steel, aluminum or wood 0
Eclipse Woods Designs Multihull 9.9 m (32′ 6″) strip planked 0
Electric Philosophy 40 Devlin Power 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Escapade Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 2″ (7.98 m) plywood on frame 0
Eureka Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) fiberglass 0
Fast Eddy 35 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 35′ 4″ (10.76 m) lapstrake aluminum 0
Fast Launch 26 Bateau Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Fisherman 28 BCA Demco Power 8.34 m (27′ 4″) plywood 0
Fishing 30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Power 29′ 6″ (9 m) steel 0
Flica 34 Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
Francis Drake Glen-L Marine Sail 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) cold molded wood 0
Fred Murphy Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 2″ (7.98 m) plywood on frame 0
Full Moon 27 Iver Franzen Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) carvel 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
Gollywobbler 38 Devlin Power 38′ 6″ (11.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Gollywobbler 43 Devlin Power 42′ 8″ (13.01 m) stitch and glue 0
GT Cruiser 27 Bateau Power 27′ 6″ (8.38 m) stitch and glue 0
GulfStream 28 Bateau Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Gulfstream 28 X Bateau Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Gung Ho Glen-L Marine Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) plywood on frame 0
Gypsy Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Hope of Glory 38 Devlin Sail 38′ 4″ (11.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Hout Bay 30 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 30′ 2″ (9.2 m) radius chine steel 0
Hout Bay 33 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 33′ 8″ (10.25 m) radius chine steel 0
Hout Bay 40 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 39′ 8″ (12.09 m) multi chine steel 0
Hout Bay 50 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 50′ 2″ (15.3 m) multi chine steel 0
Hout Bay 70 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 69′ 11″ (21.3 m) multi chine steel 0
Idea 850 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 8.53 m (28′ 0″) strip planked 0
Island Time 33 Devlin Power 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Jack Tar Glen-L Marine Power 31′ 1″ (9.47 m) plywood on frame 0
Jack Tar Arch Davis Design Row 26′ 1″ (7.95 m) plywood on frame 0
James Cook Glen-L Marine Sail 26′ 11″ (8.2 m) cold molded wood 0
Jazz 30 Bateau Multihull 30′ 0″ (9.15 m) n/a 0
Jazz 30 Woods Designs Multihull 9.15 m (30′ 0″) plywood 0
Jean Pierre Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 11″ (8.2 m) plywood on frame 0
Jolly Roger Glen-L Marine Power 27′ 9″ (8.46 m) plywood on frame 0
Josephine 40 Devlin Power 40′ 9″ (12.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Josephine 47 Devlin Power 46′ 8″ (14.22 m) stitch and glue 0
Jubilee Glen-L Marine Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) plywood on frame 0
Kestrel 26 Devlin Sail 26′ 4″ (8.03 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 26 Devlin Power 26′ 4″ (8.03 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 28 Devlin Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 30 Devlin Power 30′ 2″ (9.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 32 Cruiser Devlin Power 32′ 9″ (9.98 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 32 Troller Devlin Power 32′ 9″ (9.98 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 33 Devlin Power 32′ 10″ (10.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher 36 Devlin Power 36′ 6″ (11.13 m) stitch and glue 0
Klondike Glen-L Marine Power 49′ 0″ (14.94 m) cold molded wood 0
Kodiak Glen-L Marine Sail 28′ 6″ (8.69 m) fiberglass 0
Kokanee 36 Devlin Power 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) stitch and glue 0
Kokanee 38 Devlin Power 38′ 8″ (11.79 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.