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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
Northeaster Dory Chesapeake Light Craft Row 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) lapstrake plywood 3
14 ft Rapid Robert Roger Fletcher Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 1
15' Rangeley Lake Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) strip planked 1
Forest & Stream Skiff Forest and Stream Row n/a n/a 1
Passagemaker Take-Apart Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Polliwog 8 Devlin Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) stitch and glue 1
The Guider Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 7″ (5.66 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Ultralight Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) stitch and glue 1
10' 2" Lawton Tender Newfound Woodworks Row 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) strip planked 0
10' Jolle Boatkits Row 3.08 m (10′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
10' Ruderboot Boatkits Row 3.12 m (10′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
11 ft 4 in Sunrise Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) plywood 0
11' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.4 m (11′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
12' Ruderboot Boatkits Row 3.7 m (12′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
12ft Driftboat Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
13 ft Rowboat Grandpa's Archive Row 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) n/a 0
13' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.9 m (12′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
13' Schwan Boatkits Row 3.83 m (12′ 7″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
14ft Driftboat Glen-L Marine Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
15' Jolle Boatkits Row 4.56 m (15′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
15' Ruderkatamaran Boatkits Row 4.59 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16' 2" Adirondack Guideboat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 2″ (4.93 m) strip planked 0
16' 6" Rangeley Lake Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 6″ (5.03 m) strip planked 0
16' 8" Whitehall Pulling Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 8″ (5.08 m) strip planked 0
16' 9" Wherry Pulling/Sailing Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 16′ 9″ (5.11 m) strip planked 0
16' Kahn mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 4.8 m (15′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
17' Rangeley Double Ender Newfound Woodworks Row 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
17' Rangeley Lake Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) strip planked 0
18' 5" Liz Pulling/Sculling Boat Newfound Woodworks Row 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) strip planked 0
1932 Twelve Dollar Boat Vintage Projects Row n/a n/a 0
3 Piece Portable Rowboat Vintage Projects Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
3 Piece Rowboat Grandpa's Archive Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
7 ft 3 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 7′ 3″ (2.21 m) plywood 0
7 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) plywood 0
8 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 8′ 6″ (2.59 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
8 ft Double Ended Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) solid fibreglass 0
8' Entlein Boatkits Row 2.42 m (7′ 11″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
9 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) lapstrake 0
9 ft Double Ended Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) cold moulded 0
Acorn Skiff Iain Oughtred Row 11′ 9″ (3.58 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Ady-J Grandpa's Archive Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Amphora Stevenson Projects Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Angus Expedition Rowboat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Angus Oxford Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 15′ 10″ (4.83 m) stitch and glue 0
Angus RowCruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Annapolis Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 17′ 8″ (5.39 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Annapolis Wherry Tandem Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 10″ (6.05 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Athelas Long Lake Wooden Boats Row 17′ 2″ (5.23 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Athey Long Lake Wooden Boats Row 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Backpack Boat Butler Projects Row 5′ 0″ (1.52 m) plywood 0
Bay Skipper 18 Devlin Row 18′ 1″ (5.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Bee 16 Woods Designs Row 4.88 m (16′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Bella 10 Skiff Devlin Row 9′ 8″ (2.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 12 Devlin Row 11′ 7″ (3.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 16 Devlin Row 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) stitch and glue 0
Bevin's Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 8″ (3.56 m) plywood 0
Biloxi Dinghy Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) n/a 0
Black Fly 8 Geodesic Airolite Boats Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) skin on frame 0
Blekingseka no. 1 Båtritningar Row 4.6 m (15′ 1″) n/a 0
Blekingseka no. 13 Båtritningar Row 4.49 m (14′ 9″) n/a 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.