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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.

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 Stevenson Projects  16 Spirited Designs  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 Plyboat  11 Response Marine  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 Unik Yachts  5 James Bosman  5 Iain Oughtred  4 Selway Fisher Design  3 Manta Marine Design  3 John Spencer  2 William D. Jackson  2 John Farlow  2 Roger Fletcher  1 Nexus Marine  1 Sande  1 Laurent Giles  1 U-Fab Boats  1 Forest and Stream  1 Build-A-Boat  1 The Cardboard Boat Book  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  418 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  135 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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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Acorn Woods Designs Multihull 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Aegean 30 Woods Designs Multihull 9.2 m (30′ 2″) plywood 0
Chat 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.6 m (18′ 4″) plywood 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
Eagle 24 Woods Designs Multihull 7.3 m (23′ 11″) plywood 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
Jazz 30 Woods Designs Multihull 9.15 m (30′ 0″) plywood 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
Paper Tiger Ron Given Multihull 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Romany Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
Salish 28 Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Saylon 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
Skoota 28 Woods Designs Multihull 8.5 m (27′ 11″) plywood 0
Skoota 36 Woods Designs Multihull 11 m (36′ 1″) plywood 0
Strike 16 Woods Designs Multihull 4.75 m (15′ 7″) plywood 0
Strike 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 0
Strike 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Strike 20 Woods Designs Multihull 6.1 m (20′ 0″) plywood 0
Surfsong Woods Designs Multihull 8.4 m (27′ 7″) plywood 0
T-Cat Stevenson Projects Multihull 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Tamar 31 Woods Designs Multihull 9.5 m (31′ 2″) plywood 0
Vardo Woods Designs Multihull 10.4 m (34′ 1″) plywood 0
W17 Trimaran by Mike Waters Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 1″ (5.21 m) plywood 0
Windsong Woods Designs Multihull 9.15 m (30′ 0″) plywood 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.