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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
Trika 540 by Klaus Metz Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Trixie Andrew Walters Design Row 7′ 2″ (2.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Tryst 10 Woods Designs Multihull 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Tubby Tugboat Glen-L Marine Power 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Tug Along Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Tweak Plyboat Row 2.2 m (7′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
V-Bottom Dinghy 10 Bateau Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
V-Bottom Dinghy 12 Bateau Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 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
Volare Console Andrew Walters Design Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Volare Utility Andrew Walters Design Power 15′ 4″ (4.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Waterlust Sailing Canoe Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Waterman 12 Selway Fisher Design Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Wee Hunk Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Weekender 12 Bateau Row 12′ 3″ (3.73 m) stitch and glue 0
Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 23′ 6″ (7.16 m) stitch and glue 0
Wild thing Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 12 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck 14 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 13′ 9″ (4.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duck Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Wood Duckling 8 Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 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
Zeta 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Zeta 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Zipper Andrew Walters Design Power 11′ 0″ (3.35 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.