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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 95 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
Skoota 20 Woods Designs Multihull 5.9 m (19′ 4″) plywood on frame 0
Slither Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood on frame 0
Snipa Capella no. 7 Båtritningar Sail 5.49 m (18′ 0″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 10 Båtritningar Sail 5.48 m (18′ 0″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 30 Båtritningar Sail 5.4 m (17′ 8″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 9 Båtritningar Sail 5.39 m (17′ 8″) n/a 0
SnowShoe 16 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) skin on frame 0
Snowshoe Traveler 18 Geodesic Airolite Boats Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) skin on frame 0
Solo Day Tripper Steve Killing Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Solo Quick Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
Solution Grandpa's Archive Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Southwester Dory Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 18′ 10″ (5.74 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Spartan II Paul Gartside Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) strip planked 0
Sponge Docks Skiff 19 Bedard Yacht Design Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Sport Boat 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Sportfish 570 BCA Demco Power 5.7 m (18′ 8″) plywood 0
SportzMaster 19 Bowdidge Marine Designs Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) strip plank composite 0
Stiletto Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Stitch & Glue Night Heron Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Strike 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 0
Strike 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Stripper Glen-L Marine Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Super Skipjack Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood 0
Surge Coastal Rower 1CX Rowing Boat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 8″ (5.99 m) stitch and glue 0
Swaggie John Welsford Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Sweet Pea John Welsford Sail 5.3 m (17′ 5″) plywood 0
Sweet Sixteen Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) plywood on frame 0
T-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Tahoe 19 Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) cold molded wood 0
Tandem Day Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Quick Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) strip planked 0
Tandem Trip Ashes Still Water Boats Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
Tango Glen-L Marine Sail 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Texas Scooter 19 Bateau Power 19′ 4″ (5.89 m) composite 0
Texas Sled 18 Bateau Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Thalas 16 BCA Demco Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Threefold 6 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 19′ 8″ (6 m) folding plywood 0
Thunderbolt Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 3″ (5.26 m) plywood on frame 0
Tikino 16 Modern Wooden Boat Multihull 5.18 m (17′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
TLC 19 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) fiberglass 0
Tornado Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Torpedo Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) cold molded wood 0
Tricky Five BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Trika 540 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.4 m) folding plywood 0
Trika 540 by Klaus Metz Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
True North XPD Steve Killing Paddle 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) strip planked 0
Tug Along Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Two Plus Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Vagabond 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond Plus 20 Bateau Sail 19′ 8″ (5.99 m) stitch and glue 0
Vila 570 BCA Demco Power 5.7 m (18′ 8″) plywood 0
W17 Trimaran by Mike Waters Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 1″ (5.21 m) plywood 0
Walkabout John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Wanderlust Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood on frame 0
Waterlust Sailing Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Wee Hunk Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Weekender Stevenson Projects Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) plywood 0
Whitehall Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 11″ (5.16 m) 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.