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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.

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 Stevenson Projects  16 Spirited Designs  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 Plyboat  11 Response Marine  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 Unik Yachts  5 James Bosman  5 Iain Oughtred  4 Selway Fisher Design  3 Manta Marine Design  3 John Spencer  2 William D. Jackson  2 John Farlow  2 Roger Fletcher  1 Nexus Marine  1 Sande  1 Laurent Giles  1 U-Fab Boats  1 Forest and Stream  1 Build-A-Boat  1 The Cardboard Boat Book  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  418 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  135 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
11 ft 4 in Sunrise Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) plywood 0
12ft Driftboat Glen-L Marine Row 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
14ft Driftboat Glen-L Marine Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 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
Amphora Stevenson Projects Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Backpack Boat Butler Projects Row 5′ 0″ (1.52 m) plywood 0
Bevin's Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 8″ (3.56 m) plywood 0
Centerfold Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood 0
Clark Fork Drifter Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Dory Glen-L Marine Row 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood 0
Driftboat 16s Glen-L Marine Row 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood 0
Drifter Glen-L Marine Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Duck Boat Butler Projects Row 11′ 10″ (3.61 m) plywood 0
Fold Up Glen-L Marine Row 10′ 1″ (3.07 m) plywood 0
Gun Dory Butler Projects Row 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 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
Joansa John Welsford Row 4.6 m (15′ 1″) plywood 0
Light Dory John Welsford Row 5.14 m (16′ 10″) plywood 0
Lumberyard Punt Duck Trap Woodworking Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Maxi Mac Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
MI Bateau Multichine Bateau Row 12′ 8″ (3.86 m) plywood 0
Mini Mac Butler Projects Row n/a plywood 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
Nesting Expedition Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) plywood 0
Norwegian Gunning Dory Butler Projects Row 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) plywood 0
Origami Woodenwidget Row 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) plywood 0
Plywood Dory Butler Projects Row n/a plywood 0
POD Dory Grandpa's Archive Row 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) plywood 0
Power Drifter Glen-L Marine Row n/a plywood 0
Rock Creek Drifter Butler Projects Row 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Roof Rack John Welsford Row 2.18 m (7′ 2″) plywood 0
Scraps John Welsford Row 1.89 m (6′ 2″) plywood 0
Sherpa John Welsford Row 2.75 m (9′ 0″) plywood 0
Tender Behind John Welsford Row 2.22 m (7′ 3″) plywood 0
Tortoise Phil Bolger Row 6′ 5″ (1.96 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.