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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
Chenoa 12 Bateau Paddle 12′ 1″ (3.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Chenoa 14 Bateau Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Chenoa 16 Bateau Paddle 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Cherub John Spencer Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Chesapeake 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 16 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 16LT Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 15′ 6″ (4.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 17 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 17LT Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 16′ 11″ (5.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake 18 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Sport Tandem Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 8″ (6.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Triple Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chessie Flyer Glen-L Marine Sail 26′ 11″ (8.2 m) plywood on frame 0
Chester Yawl Chesapeake Light Craft Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Chinook Glen-L Marine Power 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood on frame 0
Chinook 21 Devlin Power 20′ 9″ (6.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Chippewa Glen-L Marine Paddle 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) cold molded wood 0
Christmas Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake 0
Chum Grandpa's Archive Power 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood on frame 0
Chunky Dory Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood on frame 0
Clarence River Dory John Welsford Power 6.04 m (19′ 10″) plywood 0
Clark Fork Drifter Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Class AB Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) plywood on frame 0
Class CD Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) plywood on frame 0
Class J Glen-L Marine Power 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) plywood on frame 0
Classic 10 Geodesic Airolite Boats Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) skin on frame 0
Classic 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Classic 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Classic 17 Bateau Power 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 19 Bateau Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 19 Express Bateau Power 19′ 2″ (5.84 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic Delta 29 P&F Yacht Design Power 29′ 0″ (8.84 m) stitch and glue 0
CLC Gislinge Boat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) lapstrake plywood 0
CLC Kayak/Canoe SailRig Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Coastal Cruiser Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
Coaster Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 2″ (7.67 m) plywood on frame 0
Coaster TY 28 Bruce Roberts Power 28′ 11″ (8.82 m) n/a 0
Coastworker 25 Bruce Roberts Power 25′ 7″ (7.8 m) n/a 0
Coastworker 28 Bruce Roberts Power 28′ 0″ (8.53 m) n/a 0
Cocktail Class Racer Chesapeake Light Craft Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Coho Pygmy Boats Paddle 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Colibri Plyboat Row 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Columbia Star White Salmon Boat Works Paddle 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) strip planked 0
Colvos Passage Long Lake Wooden Boats Paddle 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) stitch and glue 0
Console Skiff Glen-L Marine Power 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) stitch and glue 0
Coquette 39 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 39′ 4″ (12 m) multi chine plywood 0
Core Sound 15 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 2″ (4.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 18 Salt Boatworks Power 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 0
Core Sound 20 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 20 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 21 Salt Boatworks Power 21′ 6″ (6.55 m) plywood 0
Corinthian Glen-L Marine Power 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) cold molded wood 0
Corky Grandpa's Archive Other n/a n/a 0
Coronado Glen-L Marine Power 25′ 8″ (7.82 m) plywood on frame 0
Corsair 11 Bateau Sail 10′ 9″ (3.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Corsair 13 Bateau Sail 12′ 10″ (3.91 m) 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.