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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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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
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
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
Backpack Boat Butler Projects Row 5′ 0″ (1.52 m) plywood 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
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
Catspaw Pram B&B Yacht Designs Row 6′ 6″ (1.98 m) n/a 0
Centerfold Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood 0
Classic 10 Geodesic Airolite Boats Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) skin on frame 0
Colibri Plyboat Row 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Crayfish 8 Woods Designs Row 2.44 m (8′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Deckster Woodenwidget Row 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 5 Bateau Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Dingo Plyboat Row 2 m (6′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Dinky Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 0″ (2.13 m) stitch and glue 0
Dory Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) lapstrake 0
Drift Pram Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Duck Boat Butler Projects Row 11′ 10″ (3.61 m) plywood 0
Eastport Nesting Pram Chesapeake Light Craft Row 7′ 9″ (2.36 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Eastport Pram Chesapeake Light Craft Row 7′ 9″ (2.36 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Eight Ball Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood on frame 0
Eight Ball S&G Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Fliptail Woodenwidget Row 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) skin on frame 0
Fold Up Glen-L Marine Row 10′ 1″ (3.07 m) plywood 0
Gosling 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Devlin Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Grace's Tender Arch Davis Design Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Guppy 9 Devlin Row 9′ 1″ (2.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Handy Andy Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Imp Glen-L Marine Row 9′ 9″ (2.97 m) plywood 0
Ke-Pau Glen-L Marine Row 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) plywood on frame 0
Kid-Row Glen-L Marine Row 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Kingfisher Grandpa's Archive Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) plywood on frame 0
Lit'l Petrel 9 Devlin Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Lobsterman's Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) lapstrake 0
Lumberyard Punt Duck Trap Woodworking Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Maine Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Row 9′ 7″ (2.92 m) lapstrake 0
Mickey Mouse Plyboat Row 2.4 m (7′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Micro Petrel Devlin Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Mighty Mouse Plyboat Row 2.4 m (7′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Montana Guide Boat Butler Projects Row 11′ 6″ (3.51 m) plywood 0
Montana Pram Butler Projects Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) 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.