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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
Shearwater 45 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 44′ 3″ (13.5 m) fiberglass 0
Sid Skiff Ray Speck Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) n/a 0
Skerry Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Skerry Raid (Expedition Skerry) Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 14′ 11″ (4.55 m) lapstrake plywood 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. 8 Båtritningar Sail 4.88 m (16′ 0″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 9 Båtritningar Sail 5.39 m (17′ 8″) n/a 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
Sphera BCA Demco Sail 9.94 m (32′ 7″) plywood 0
Spirit Glen-L Marine Sail 39′ 2″ (11.94 m) steel 0
Sport Boat 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Spray 22 Bruce Roberts Sail 24′ 0″ (7.31 m) plywood 0
Spray 27 Bruce Roberts Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) n/a 0
Spray 28 Bruce Roberts Sail 28′ 7″ (8.7 m) n/a 0
Spray 33 Bruce Roberts Sail 32′ 11″ (10.03 m) n/a 0
Spritz! BCA Demco Sail 2.95 m (9′ 8″) stitch and glue 0
Starpath Glen-L Marine Sail 43′ 11″ (13.39 m) cold molded wood 0
Steelaway Glen-L Marine Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) steel 0
Sundowner John Welsford Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Sunshine Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) lapstrake 0
Super Skipjack Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood 0
Swaggie John Welsford Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Sweet Pea John Welsford Sail 5.3 m (17′ 5″) plywood 0
Tamanu Gary Dierking Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) Plywood, taped seam 0
Tango Glen-L Marine Sail 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood on frame 0
Techně BCA Demco Sail 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Tenas Tiama Bartender Boats Sail 13′ 8″ (4.16 m) n/a 0
Tenderly 10-foot Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) lapstrake plywood 0
TLC 19 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) fiberglass 0
TLC 27 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) fiberglass 0
Topper Glen-L Marine Sail 10′ 8″ (3.25 m) plywood 0
Tramp Grandpa's Archive Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Tramp Vintage Projects Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) n/a 0
Tread Lightly John Welsford Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) plywood 0
Triad Stevenson Projects Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Truant John Welsford Sail 3.5 m (11′ 6″) plywood 0
Ultra Pierre Glen-L Marine Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood on frame 0
Vacationer Stevenson Projects Sail 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) plywood 0
Vagabond 18 Bateau Sail 18′ 2″ (5.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond 23 Bateau Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond 26 Bateau Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Vagabond Plus 20 Bateau Sail 19′ 8″ (5.99 m) stitch and glue 0
Vertue Laurent Giles Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) carvel 0
Vickers 45 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 45′ 5″ (13.85 m) fiberglass 0
Vickers 45AC Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 45′ 5″ (13.85 m) cold molded wood 0
Walkabout John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Waterlust Sailing Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Wayfarer Ian Proctor Sail 15′ 10″ (4.83 m) plywood 0
Weekender Stevenson Projects Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) plywood 0
Windy 900 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 29′ 2″ (8.9 m) fiberglass 0
Wing Dinghy Stevenson Projects Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Yankee Star Glen-L Marine Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) cold molded wood 0
Young Baggie BCA Demco Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) strip planked 0
Zen BCA Demco Sail 2.98 m (9′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Zest 14 Woods Designs Sail 4.27 m (14′ 0″) 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.