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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
Bandido Glen-L Marine Power 30′ 2″ (9.2 m) cold molded wood 0
Banjo 20 Outboard Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Barrelback 19 Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 1″ (5.82 m) cold molded wood 0
Bartender 19 Bartender Boats Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood on frame 0
Bartender 20.5 Bartender Boats Power 20′ 6″ (6.25 m) plywood on frame 0
Bartender 22 Bartender Boats Power 22′ 7″ (6.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Bartender 26 Cruising Bartender Boats Power 26′ 3″ (8 m) plywood on frame 0
Bartender 26 Sport Fishing Bartender Boats Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Bartender 29 Bartender Boats Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) plywood on frame 0
Bass Boat Stevenson Projects Power 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Bass Boat Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Bay Pilot 18 Arch Davis Design Power 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood on frame 0
Bay River Skiff B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Bay Skipper 18 Devlin Row 18′ 1″ (5.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Bayou Belle Houseboat Grandpa's Archive Power 25′ 8″ (7.82 m) plywood on frame 0
Bear Cat Cuddy Glen-L Marine Power 27′ 10″ (8.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Bear-Cat Sport Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) plywood on frame 0
Bebop Grandpa's Archive Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Bee 16 Woods Designs Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Belhaven 19 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 10 Skiff Devlin Row 9′ 8″ (2.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 12 Devlin Row 11′ 7″ (3.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 16 Devlin Row 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Belle Isle 23 Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) cold molded wood 0
Benford 30 Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
Bette 500 HV Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Bette 500 LV Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Bevin's Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 8″ (3.56 m) plywood 0
Bicycle Boat Grandpa's Archive Other n/a n/a 0
Big Hunk Glen-L Marine Power 26′ 7″ (8.1 m) plywood on frame 0
Bigakat 12 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 12′ 2″ (3.72 m) strip planked 0
Biloxi Dinghy Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) n/a 0
Biloxi Dinghy Vintage Projects Sail n/a n/a 0
Bingo Glen-L Marine Power 12′ 8″ (3.86 m) stitch and glue 0
Birder Decked Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Biscayne 18 Glen-L Marine Power 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) cold molded wood 0
Biscayne 22 Glen-L Marine Power 21′ 10″ (6.66 m) cold molded wood 0
Black Brant II 14 Devlin Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Brant III Chesapeake Light Craft Power 14′ 3″ (4.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Brant III 15 Devlin Power 14′ 3″ (4.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Crown 30 Devlin Power 30′ 6″ (9.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Black Fly 8 Geodesic Airolite Boats Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) skin on frame 0
Blekingseka no. 1 Båtritningar Row 4.6 m (15′ 1″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 13 Båtritningar Row 4.49 m (14′ 9″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 14 Båtritningar Row 4.28 m (14′ 1″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 17 Båtritningar Row 4.31 m (14′ 2″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 2 Båtritningar Row 4.91 m (16′ 1″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 4 Båtritningar Row 4.58 m (15′ 0″) n/a 0
Blivit 13 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) skin on frame 0
Blue Bill Grandpa's Archive Paddle 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) skin on frame 0
Blue Blazer 25 Devlin Power 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Blue Fin 48 Devlin Power 48′ 4″ (14.73 m) stitch and glue 0
Blue Fin 54 Devlin Power 54′ 0″ (16.46 m) stitch and glue 0
Blue Moon Grandpa's Archive Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
Blue Streak Grandpa's Archive Power n/a plywood on frame 0
Bluebill 12 Devlin Power 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Bluebill 12 Chesapeake Light Craft Power 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Bluefin Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) plywood on frame 0
Bo Jest Glen-L Marine Power 17′ 10″ (5.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Bolero Glen-L Marine Power 24′ 5″ (7.44 m) plywood on frame 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.