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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
Nereide BCA Demco Paddle 4.8 m (15′ 9″) strip planked 0
Nimrod Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Nimrod 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Ninfa BCA Demco Paddle 4.3 m (14′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Norwegian Gunning Dory Butler Projects Row 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) plywood 0
Nymph 12 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) strip planked 0
Old Baggie BCA Demco Sail 4.6 m (15′ 1″) strip planked 0
Oolichan 13 Devlin Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Orca 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 m) stitch and glue 0
Otter 16 Bateau Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Outboard Skiff 15 Bateau Power 15′ 2″ (4.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Outrigger Junior Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Overniter Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 11″ (4.85 m) plywood on frame 0
Paper Tiger Ron Given Multihull 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Peeler Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Power 15′ 2″ (4.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Penobscot 13 Arch Davis Design Sail 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Penobscot 14 Arch Davis Design Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Petrel Play Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) strip planked 0
Petrel Scout SG Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Phantom 15 Bateau Power 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) composite 0
Pirogue Glen-L Marine Paddle 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Pixie 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Pixie 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Play Pen Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Playboy Grandpa's Archive Power 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Ply-Flier Stevenson Projects Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Plyak 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 4″ (3.76 m) stitch and glue 0
PocketShip Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 14′ 10″ (4.52 m) stitch and glue 0
POD Dory Grandpa's Archive Row 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood 0
Poleboat 13 Devlin Row 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Pond Skipper 14 Devlin Paddle 13′ 10″ (4.2 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
Power-Row Skiff 13.5 Glen-L Marine Row 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Power-Row Skiff 15.5 Glen-L Marine Row 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood on frame 0
Pro Vee Dillon Racing Power 12′ 7″ (3.84 m) plywood 0
Pug Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Ranger Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Rebel Glen-L Marine Power 14′ 10″ (4.52 m) plywood on frame 0
Rhode Runner - The CLC Runabout Chesapeake Light Craft Power 14′ 9″ (4.5 m) stitch and glue 0
Rifleman John Welsford Power 4.5 m (14′ 9″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Ripple 4.2 Spirited Designs Multihull 4.2 m (13′ 9″) composite 0
RipTide XR-457 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip plank composite 0
Rob Roy Glen-L Marine Paddle 14′ 5″ (4.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Rob Roy 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Roberts 15 Bruce Roberts Sail 15′ 0″ (4.58 m) n/a 0
Rock Creek Drifter Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
RoG 15 Micro-cruiser Bedard Yacht Design Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Rogue John Welsford Sail 4.45 m (14′ 7″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Row 13 Bateau Row 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Rowme Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 2″ (3.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Runabout 12 Bateau Power 12′ 6″ (3.81 m) composite 0
Runabout 14 Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) composite 0
Rundgatting no. 15 Båtritningar Sail 4.45 m (14′ 7″) n/a 0
Salmon Wherry 15.5 Bartender Boats Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) n/a 0
Sande Ace Sande Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) plywood 0
Sassafras 12 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Sassafras 16 Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 7″ (4.75 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.