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.

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 Spirited Designs 16 Stevenson Projects 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 Response Marine 11 Plyboat 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 James Bosman 5 Unik Yachts 5 Iain Oughtred 4 Manta Marine Design 3 Selway Fisher Design 3 William D. Jackson 2 John Farlow 2 John Spencer 2 Paul Gartside 1 Sande 1 Forest and Stream 1 Nexus Marine 1 Roger Fletcher 1 Laurent Giles 1 The Cardboard Boat Book 1 Build-A-Boat 1 U-Fab Boats 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 419 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 136 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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Most logs Name A–Z Shortest first Longest first

371 boats

Compare two boats

Design	Plans from	Type	LOA	Construction
Wing Dinghy	Stevenson Projects	Sail	12′ 0″ (3.66 m)	plywood
Wood Duck 12	Chesapeake Light Craft	Paddle	12′ 0″ (3.66 m)	stitch and glue
Wood Duck 12 Hybrid	Chesapeake Light Craft	Paddle	12′ 0″ (3.66 m)	stitch and glue with strip deck
Wood Duck 14	Chesapeake Light Craft	Paddle	13′ 9″ (4.19 m)	stitch and glue
Wood Duck 14 Hybrid	Chesapeake Light Craft	Paddle	13′ 9″ (4.19 m)	stitch and glue with strip deck
Wood Duck Double	Chesapeake Light Craft	Paddle	14′ 0″ (4.27 m)	stitch and glue
Young Baggie	BCA Demco	Sail	4 m (13′ 1″)	strip planked
Zest 14	Woods Designs	Sail	4.27 m (14′ 0″)	stitch and glue
Zeta 14	Bateau	Multihull	14′ 1″ (4.3 m)	stitch and glue
Zeta 14	Woods Designs	Multihull	4.27 m (14′ 0″)	stitch and glue
Zip	Glen-L Marine	Power	14′ 4″ (4.37 m)	plywood on frame

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.