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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.

By builder
All Glen-L Marine  287 Benford Design Group  147 Devlin  142 Bateau  141 Chesapeake Light Craft  121 Dudley Dix Yacht Design  90 BCA Demco  64 Grandpa's Archive  54 Woods Designs  46 Boatkits  41 John Welsford  36 B&B Yacht Designs  35 Newfound Woodworks  32 Båtritningar  32 Modern Wooden Boat  21 Bowdidge Marine Designs  21 Duck Trap Woodworking  20 Geodesic Airolite Boats  19 Butler Projects  18 Stevenson Projects  16 Spirited Designs  16 Ashes Still Water Boats  15 White Salmon Boat Works  14 Vintage Projects  13 Bartender Boats  13 Woodenwidget  13 Bruce Roberts  12 Arch Davis Design  12 Plyboat  11 Response Marine  11 B&G Yacht Design  10 Salt Boatworks  9 Andrew Walters Design  9 Steve Killing  9 Dillon Racing  8 Bedard Yacht Design  8 Long Lake Wooden Boats  6 Unik Yachts  5 James Bosman  5 Iain Oughtred  4 Selway Fisher Design  3 Manta Marine Design  3 John Spencer  2 William D. Jackson  2 John Farlow  2 Roger Fletcher  1 Nexus Marine  1 Sande  1 Laurent Giles  1 U-Fab Boats  1 Forest and Stream  1 Build-A-Boat  1 The Cardboard Boat Book  1 Echo-Craft  1 Phil Bolger  1 Pygmy Boats  1 Jim Michalak  1 Spira International  1 Ray Speck  1 Albert Strange  1 Yannick Maignien  1 Niel Shelton  1 David Rogers  1 Iver Franzen  1 Jim Norman  1 Daniel Berg  1 Gary Dierking  1 P&F Yacht Design  1 Philip Rhodes  1 Jack Holt  1 Ron Given  1 Ian Proctor  1 George Cockshott  1
By type
All Paddle  227 Row  229 Sail  418 Power  616 Multihull  108 Other  20
By length
Any Under 12′ 12–16′ 16–20′ 20–26′ Over 26′
By construction
Any stitch and glue  510 plywood on frame  243 plywood  199 strip planked  135 cold molded wood  42 composite  31 lapstrake plywood  30 skin on frame  23 glued lapstrake plywood  20 fiberglass  20 radius chine plywood  17 steel chine  16
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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Stow-Away 6.5 Spirited Designs Multihull 6.5 m (21′ 4″) composite 0
Stow-Away 7.5 Spirited Designs Multihull 7.5 m (24′ 7″) composite 0
Strider Woods Designs Multihull 7.3 m (23′ 11″) cold molded wood 0
Strike 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
Sundowner John Welsford Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Super Huck Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
Surf Scoter 22 Devlin Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 22 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Fisher Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Surf Scoter 24 Traditional Devlin Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Sweet Caroline Glen-L Marine Row 20′ 1″ (6.12 m) plywood on frame 0
Tahoe 23 Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 9″ (6.93 m) cold molded wood 0
Tamanu Gary Dierking Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) Plywood, taped seam 0
Team Dory Chesapeake Light Craft Row 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) lapstrake plywood 0
TimberCoast 22 Bartender Boats Power 21′ 11″ (6.67 m) n/a 0
Titan Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) plywood on frame 0
Trillo BCA Demco Multihull 7.5 m (24′ 7″) strip planked 0
True Grit Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
V-Dory Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) plywood on frame 0
Vacationer Stevenson Projects Sail 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
Vagabond 23 Bateau Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Vandal Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 3″ (6.78 m) plywood on frame 0
Vee Gull Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) plywood on frame 0
Vera Cruise Glen-L Marine Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) plywood on frame 0
Vertue Laurent Giles Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) carvel 0
Vila 620 BCA Demco Power 6.2 m (20′ 4″) plywood 0
Vila 650 BCA Demco Power 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Vision Wood Single Sculls Dudley Dix Yacht Design Row 25′ 4″ (7.73 m) wood 0
Waterlodge Glen-L Marine Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood 0
Waverunner 24 Bruce Roberts Power 24′ 0″ (7.31 m) plywood 0
Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 23′ 6″ (7.16 m) stitch and glue 0
Wildcat E_X_T Cuddy Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood on frame 0
Wildcat E_X_T Sport Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) plywood on frame 0
Wizard Woods Designs Multihull 6.7 m (22′ 0″) strip planked 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.