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.
229 boats
Compare two boats| 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.