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.

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 Spirited Designs 16 Stevenson Projects 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 Response Marine 11 Plyboat 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 James Bosman 5 Unik Yachts 5 Iain Oughtred 4 Manta Marine Design 3 Selway Fisher Design 3 William D. Jackson 2 John Farlow 2 John Spencer 2 Paul Gartside 1 Sande 1 Forest and Stream 1 Nexus Marine 1 Roger Fletcher 1 Laurent Giles 1 The Cardboard Boat Book 1 Build-A-Boat 1 U-Fab Boats 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 419 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 136 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
Squirt	Glen-L Marine	Power	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	plywood on frame	2
Tiny Titan	Glen-L Marine	Power	8′ 2″ (2.49 m)	plywood on frame	1
10' Garvey Jolle	Boatkits	Power	3.05 m (10′ 0″)	stitch and glue	0
Bebop	Grandpa's Archive	Power	8′ 0″ (2.44 m)	plywood on frame	0
Broadbill 11	Devlin	Power	10′ 8″ (3.25 m)	stitch and glue	0
Bullet	Glen-L Marine	Power	11′ 3″ (3.43 m)	plywood on frame	0
Class AB	Glen-L Marine	Power	10′ 6″ (3.2 m)	plywood on frame	0
Class J	Glen-L Marine	Power	9′ 0″ (2.74 m)	plywood on frame	0
Cocktail Class Racer	Chesapeake Light Craft	Power	8′ 0″ (2.44 m)	stitch and glue	0
Dyno Jet	Glen-L Marine	Power	11′ 1″ (3.38 m)	stitch and glue	0
Dyno Mite	Glen-L Marine	Power	11′ 1″ (3.38 m)	stitch and glue	0
EZ Tunnel	Dillon Racing	Power	10′ 10″ (3.3 m)	plywood	0
Fast Garvey 10	Bateau	Power	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	stitch and glue	0
Fish Hook	John Welsford	Power	3.05 m (10′ 0″)	plywood	0
Flat Skiff 12	Bateau	Power	11′ 7″ (3.53 m)	stitch and glue	0
Flats River Skiff 12	Salt Boatworks	Power	11′ 8″ (3.56 m)	plywood	0
Jiffy 9-7	Arch Davis Design	Power	9′ 7″ (2.92 m)	plywood	0
Johnboat	Butler Projects	Power	8′ 0″ (2.44 m)	plywood	0
Jon Boat / Garvey 11	Bateau	Power	11′ 1″ (3.38 m)	stitch and glue	0
Lake Union Swift	Chesapeake Light Craft	Power	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	lapstrake plywood	0
Little Fellow	Vintage Projects	Power	6′ 6″ (1.98 m)	n/a	0
Mini Tunnel	Dillon Racing	Power	10′ 3″ (3.12 m)	plywood	0
Mini Vee	Dillon Racing	Power	11′ 11″ (3.63 m)	plywood	0
Pee Wee	Glen-L Marine	Power	7′ 6″ (2.29 m)	plywood on frame	0
Picklefork	Glen-L Marine	Power	9′ 6″ (2.9 m)	plywood on frame	0
Pontooner	Grandpa's Archive	Power	11′ 7″ (3.53 m)	plywood on frame	0
Pro Tunnel	Dillon Racing	Power	11′ 1″ (3.38 m)	plywood	0
Silver 333	BCA Demco	Power	3.33 m (10′ 11″)	stitch and glue	0
Sport C Tunnel	Dillon Racing	Power	11′ 7″ (3.53 m)	plywood	0
Super Spartan	Glen-L Marine	Power	10′ 2″ (3.1 m)	plywood on frame	0
TNT	Glen-L Marine	Power	11′ 0″ (3.35 m)	plywood on frame	0
Tubby Tugboat	Glen-L Marine	Power	9′ 0″ (2.74 m)	stitch and glue	0
Tunnel Mite	Glen-L Marine	Power	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	plywood on frame	0
Utility	Glen-L Marine	Power	11′ 0″ (3.35 m)	plywood on frame	0
Wild thing	Glen-L Marine	Power	10′ 0″ (3.05 m)	stitch and glue	0
XP-8	Glen-L Marine	Power	8′ 3″ (2.52 m)	plywood on frame	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.