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
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' 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' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.4 m (11′ 2″) 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
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
Drift Pram Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Eight Ball S&G Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Devlin Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Guppy 9 Devlin Row 9′ 1″ (2.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Kid-Row Glen-L Marine Row 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Lit'l Petrel 9 Devlin Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 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
Mouse Grande Plyboat Row 2.34 m (7′ 8″) stitch and glue 0
Nesting Dinghy 11 Bateau Row 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Nutshell 7 Bateau Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) stitch and glue 0
Paddlewheeler Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 8″ (2.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Peeper 12 Devlin Row 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Pram 220 BCA Demco Row 2.2 m (7′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
Prameke 7'-8' Bateau Row 7′ 8″ (2.34 m) stitch and glue 0
PT Eleven Nesting Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) stitch and glue 0
PT Spear Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) stitch and glue 0
Sanddab 6 Devlin Row 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) stitch and glue 0
Sandpiper 8 Devlin Row 8′ 2″ (2.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Semi Dory 11 Bateau Row 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) stitch and glue 0
Spindrift Dinghy B&B Yacht Designs Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Trixie Andrew Walters Design Row 7′ 2″ (2.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Tweak Plyboat Row 2.2 m (7′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
V-Bottom Dinghy 10 Bateau Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 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.