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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
Eider 17 Devlin Sail 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Eight Ball S&G Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Electric Philosophy 40 Devlin Power 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Expedition Sailing Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Expedition Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) stitch and glue 0
Extreme Flats 20 Bateau Power 20′ 4″ (6.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Extreme Flats 22 Bateau Power 22′ 1″ (6.73 m) stitch and glue 0
F1430 Sit-On-Top Kayak Bedard Yacht Design Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
F1830 Sit-On-Top Tandem Kayak Bedard Yacht Design Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Fairhaven Flyer 20 Devlin Row 20′ 4″ (6.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Garvey 10 Bateau Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Launch 26 Bateau Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 12 Bateau Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 14 Low Sheer Bateau Power 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 17 Bateau Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Skiff 19 Bateau Power 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Fife Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Fisher Prospector Selway Fisher Design Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.76 m) stitch and glue 0
Flat Skiff 12 Bateau Power 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Flat Skiff 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Flats Stalker 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Flyfisher 13 Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Gannet 25 Devlin Power 24′ 9″ (7.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Garvey 17 Bateau Power 16′ 8″ (5.08 m) stitch and glue 0
Garvey 18 Bateau Power 17′ 5″ (5.31 m) stitch and glue 0
General Purpose 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Giormax BCA Demco Sail 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Glass Bottom Glen-L Marine Other 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) stitch and glue 0
Godzilla 22 Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Godzilla 25 Devlin Power 24′ 8″ (7.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Godzilli 16 Devlin Power 16′ 7″ (5.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Goldfish Plyboat Paddle 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 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
Gosling 10 Devlin Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Grand Diva Kayak B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
GT Cruiser 23 Bateau Power 23′ 6″ (7.16 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
Guppy 9 Devlin Row 9′ 1″ (2.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Haiku 700 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.2 m (20′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Happy Hour Plyboat Paddle 2.8 m (9′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
Harbor Master 19 Bateau Power 18′ 9″ (5.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Harbor Master Displacement 19 Bateau Power 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 14 Bateau Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Hiawatha 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Hideaway 22 Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker 15 Bateau Row 14′ 10″ (4.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker 18 Devlin Power 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker H.B. 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Hope of Glory 38 Devlin Sail 38′ 4″ (11.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 16 Bateau Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 20 Bateau Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Indian River Skiff 15 Bateau Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Island Time 33 Devlin Power 33′ 0″ (10.06 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.