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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
40 ft Motorsailer K'AN Benford Design Group Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
40 ft Skipjack Benford Design Group Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) plywood or steel chine 0
40 ft Trawler Yacht Benford Design Group Power 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
41 ft DE Cutter Quiet Bird or P.H. Cutter Clayton Benford Design Group Sail 41′ 0″ (12.5 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass 0
42 ft Florida Bay Coaster or Tug/Coaster Benford Design Group Power 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) steel chine 0
42 ft Topsail Schooner or Ketch or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
43 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 43′ 0″ (13.11 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
44 ft Cat Ketch Boundary Bay 44 Benford Design Group Sail 44′ 0″ (13.41 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
44 ft Trawler Yacht Benford Design Group Power 44′ 0″ (13.41 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
45 ft 6 in Cutter or Ketch Orphan Annie Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 6″ (13.87 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
45 ft Cat Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) steel chine 0
45 ft Dory Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) plywood 0
45 ft Double Ended Ketch or Topsail Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) cold moulded or glass over strip planking or round bilge steel 0
45 ft Fantail Cutter Argonauta Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) cold moulded or steel chine 0
45 ft Fantail Yacht Tiffany Benford Design Group Power 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) cold moulded 0
45 ft Florida Bay Coaster Sails Benford Design Group Power 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) steel chine 0
45 ft Friday Harbor Ferry Benford Design Group Power 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) plywood 0
45 ft Lug Schooner Inscrutable or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) steel chine 0
45 ft Motor Yacht Little Sindbad Benford Design Group Power 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) round bilge steel 0
46 ft Ketch Toketee , Motorsailer or Brigantine Benford Design Group Sail 46′ 0″ (14.02 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded 0
48 ft 10 in Ketch Apache West Benford Design Group Sail 48′ 10″ (14.88 m) n/a 0
50 ft C. B. Ketch Chanty or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) n/a 0
50 ft Coasters FL Bay, Seaclusion, & Rubicon Benford Design Group Power 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) steel chine 0
50 ft Double Ended Ketch or Brigantine/Trader Benford Design Group Sail 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or round bilge steel 0
50 ft FL Bay Coasters (1999 version) Benford Design Group Power 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) steel chine 0
52 ft 6 in /55' Florida Bay Coaster North Star Benford Design Group Power 52′ 6″ (16 m) steel chine 0
54 ft 6 in Pilothouse Cutter Ramblin' Rose Benford Design Group Sail 54′ 6″ (16.61 m) round bilge steel 0
55 ft Coaster Teddi Bear Benford Design Group Power 55′ 0″ (16.76 m) steel chine 0
55 ft Trawler Yacht Lady K Benford Design Group Power 55′ 0″ (16.76 m) n/a 0
56 ft Trawler Yacht Benford Design Group Power 56′ 0″ (17.07 m) steel chine 0
5m Raptor Spirited Designs Multihull 5.1 m (16′ 9″) n/a 0
6 M Whaler John Welsford Sail 5.99 m (19′ 8″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
60 ft Double Ended Cutter Wild Hare Benford Design Group Sail 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
60 ft Florida Bay Coasters (Freighter Yachts) Benford Design Group Power 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) steel chine 0
60 ft Ketch Harambee Benford Design Group Sail 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) n/a 0
60 ft Motor Yacht Benford Design Group Power 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) steel chine 0
60 ft Topsail Schooner Benford Design Group Sail 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) cold moulded 0
62 ft Trawler Yacht Indenture Benford Design Group Power 62′ 0″ (18.9 m) n/a 0
65 ft FL Bay Coaster Key Largo & Variations Benford Design Group Power 65′ 0″ (19.81 m) steel chine 0
65 ft Pilothouse Cutter Canvasback Benford Design Group Sail 65′ 0″ (19.81 m) aluminium 0
67 ft 6 in Pilothouse Ketch Saline Benford Design Group Sail 67′ 6″ (20.57 m) aluminium 0
67 ft Pilothouse Ketch Thumper Benford Design Group Sail 67′ 0″ (20.42 m) aluminium 0
7 ft 3 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 7′ 3″ (2.21 m) plywood 0
7 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) plywood 0
8 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 8′ 6″ (2.59 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
8 ft Double Ended Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) solid fibreglass 0
8 ft Portland Yawlboat Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
8' Entlein Boatkits Row 2.42 m (7′ 11″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
9 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) lapstrake 0
9 ft Double Ended Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) cold moulded 0
A-Lure Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 2″ (7.67 m) plywood on frame 0
Abaco 23 Bateau Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Ace William D. Jackson Power 12′ 4″ (3.76 m) plywood 0
Ace 14 Arch Davis Design Power 14′ 4″ (4.37 m) plywood on frame 0
Acorn Woods Designs Multihull 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Acorn 21 Bateau Multihull 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Acorn Skiff Iain Oughtred Row 11′ 9″ (3.58 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Acquinus c57 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 57′ 0″ (17.37 m) composite 0
Adelie 14 Bateau Sail 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Adelie 16 Bateau Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 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.