boatbuildlog

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
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
Chat 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 4″ (5.6 m) stitch and glue 0
E-Cat 24 Bateau Multihull 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) stitch and glue 0
Janus 22' Full Bateau Multihull 21′ 10″ (6.65 m) stitch and glue 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
Moschino BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 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
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
Sirene du Saloum BCA Demco Multihull 9.8 m (32′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
Skoota 18 Bateau Multihull 18′ 4″ (5.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Skoota 18 Woods Designs Multihull 5.6 m (18′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Strike 15 Woods Designs Multihull 4.5 m (14′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Tikino 16 Modern Wooden Boat Multihull 5.18 m (17′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Tricky Five BCA Demco Multihull 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Trika 540 by Klaus Metz Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Tryst 10 Woods Designs Multihull 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 23′ 6″ (7.16 m) 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

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.