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.
28 boats
Compare two boats| Design | Plans from | Type | LOA | Construction | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 ft Trimaran | Grandpa's Archive | Multihull | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | plywood on frame | 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 |
| Cat 22 | Bateau | Multihull | 21′ 6″ (6.55 m) | stitch and glue | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sango | Woods Designs | Multihull | 7.7 m (25′ 3″) | strip planked | 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 |
| Shadow | Woods Designs | Multihull | 7.3 m (23′ 11″) | cold molded wood | 0 |
| Skoota 24 | Bateau | Multihull | 24′ 8″ (7.52 m) | plywood on frame | 0 |
| Skoota 24 | Woods Designs | Multihull | 7.52 m (24′ 8″) | plywood on frame | 0 |
| Spirited 230 Power | Spirited Designs | Multihull | 7.9 m (25′ 11″) | composite | 0 |
| Spirited 7000 | Spirited Designs | Multihull | 7.1 m (23′ 4″) | composite | 0 |
| Stow-Away 6.5 | Spirited Designs | Multihull | 6.5 m (21′ 4″) | composite | 0 |
| Stow-Away 7.5 | Spirited Designs | Multihull | 7.5 m (24′ 7″) | composite | 0 |
| Strider | Woods Designs | Multihull | 7.3 m (23′ 11″) | cold molded wood | 0 |
| Strike 20 | Woods Designs | Multihull | 6.1 m (20′ 0″) | plywood | 0 |
| Trillo | BCA Demco | Multihull | 7.5 m (24′ 7″) | strip planked | 0 |
| Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran | Chesapeake Light Craft | Multihull | 23′ 6″ (7.16 m) | stitch and glue | 0 |
| Wizard | Woods Designs | Multihull | 6.7 m (22′ 0″) | strip planked | 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.