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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
20 ft Trimaran Grandpa's Archive Multihull 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood on frame 0
5m Raptor Spirited Designs Multihull 5.1 m (16′ 9″) n/a 0
Acorn Woods Designs Multihull 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Acorn 21 Bateau Multihull 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Acquinus c57 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 57′ 0″ (17.37 m) composite 0
Aegean 30 Woods Designs Multihull 9.2 m (30′ 2″) plywood 0
Backpack 38 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) demountable plywood 0
Bigakat 12 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 12′ 2″ (3.72 m) strip planked 0
Cat 22 Bateau Multihull 21′ 6″ (6.55 m) stitch and glue 0
Chat 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 4″ (5.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Chat 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.6 m (18′ 4″) plywood 0
Crossover Spirited Designs Multihull 14.74 m (48′ 4″) composite 0
DH550 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 54′ 11″ (16.75 m) plywood 0
DH550 Charter Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 54′ 11″ (16.75 m) plywood 0
Dix 430 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 43′ 2″ (13.15 m) plywood 0
Dix 470 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 46′ 9″ (14.24 m) plywood 0
E-Cat 24 Bateau Multihull 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) stitch and glue 0
Eagle 24 Woods Designs Multihull 7.3 m (23′ 11″) plywood 0
Eclipse Woods Designs Multihull 9.9 m (32′ 6″) strip planked 0
Flica 34 Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
Gypsy Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Hydro-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull n/a plywood 0
Janus Woods Designs Multihull 6.65 m (21′ 10″) plywood 0
Janus 22' Full Bateau Multihull 21′ 10″ (6.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Jazz 30 Bateau Multihull 30′ 0″ (9.15 m) n/a 0
Jazz 30 Woods Designs Multihull 9.15 m (30′ 0″) plywood 0
Kick Catamaran Grandpa's Archive Multihull n/a n/a 0
Kick Power Catamaran Vintage Projects Multihull n/a n/a 0
Madness 31-foot Pacific Proa Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 30′ 8″ (9.35 m) stitch and glue 0
Mbuli - A Pacific Proa Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Merlin Woods Designs Multihull 7.65 m (25′ 1″) strip planked 0
Mini Trimaran B&B Yacht Designs Multihull 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 0
Mini-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull n/a plywood 0
Mira Woods Designs Multihull 10.65 m (34′ 11″) plywood 0
Mirage Woods Designs Multihull 11 m (36′ 1″) plywood 0
Moschino BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Oppikat Dudley Dix Yacht Design Multihull 9′ 0″ (2.75 m) strip planked 0
Paper Tiger Ron Given Multihull 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Pixie 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Pixie 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Pontoon Cat (PC20) Bateau Multihull 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) composite 0
Pontoon Cat (PC22) Bateau Multihull 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) composite 0
Pontoon Cat (PC24) Bateau Multihull 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) composite 0
Quattro 14 Bateau Multihull 14′ 1″ (4.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 14 Woods Designs Multihull 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 16 Bateau Multihull 16′ 5″ (5 m) stitch and glue 0
Quattro 16 Woods Designs Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
RaceLine 380 Spirited Designs Multihull 11.7 m (38′ 5″) composite 0
Rapid 5000 Spirited Designs Multihull 5.3 m (17′ 5″) composite 0
Ripple 4.2 Spirited Designs Multihull 4.2 m (13′ 9″) composite 0
Romany Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
Sagitta Woods Designs Multihull 9.14 m (30′ 0″) strip planked 0
Salish 28 Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Sango Woods Designs Multihull 7.7 m (25′ 3″) strip planked 0
Saturn Woods Designs Multihull 8.8 m (28′ 10″) plywood on frame 0
Saylon 20 Bateau Multihull 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) plywood on frame 0
Saylon 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
Seascape Spirited Designs Multihull 6 m (19′ 8″) composite 0
Shadow Woods Designs Multihull 7.3 m (23′ 11″) cold molded wood 0
Sirene du Saloum BCA Demco Multihull 9.8 m (32′ 2″) 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.