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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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Jimmy Skiff II Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 1
Navigator John Welsford Sail 4.5 m (14′ 9″) glued lapstrake plywood 1
Paper Jet 14 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 13′ 5″ (4.1 m) stitch and glue 1
12 ft Keelboat Benford Design Group Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
13' wPod Boatkits Sail 4.11 m (13′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
14 ft Sloop Happy Benford Design Group Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) cold moulded 0
16' Segelboot Boatkits Sail 4.54 m (14′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
Adelie 14 Bateau Sail 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Alexa’s Rocket 15 Bateau Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Argie 15 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Bay River Skiff B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Blivit 13 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 13′ 0″ (3.96 m) skin on frame 0
Breeze Baby Grandpa's Archive Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Caravelle 16 Bateau Sail 14′ 4″ (4.37 m) stitch and glue 0
Catboat Andrew Walters Design Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
Cherub John Spencer Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Christmas Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) lapstrake 0
Classic 12 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) skin on frame 0
Classic 14 Geodesic Airolite Boats Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) skin on frame 0
Core Sound 15 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 2″ (4.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Corsair 13 Bateau Sail 12′ 10″ (3.91 m) stitch and glue 0
Crescent Grandpa's Archive Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) plywood on frame 0
Didi Sport 15 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) radius chine plywood 0
DP14 BCA Demco Sail 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Duckling 14 Sail Devlin Sail 14′ 5″ (4.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Egret 15 Devlin Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Fafnir John Welsford Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Falcon Grandpa's Archive Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 12 Glen-L Marine Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 13 Glen-L Marine Sail 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 14 Glen-L Marine Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 15 Glen-L Marine Sail 15′ 1″ (4.6 m) plywood on frame 0
Golden Bay Setnet John Welsford Sail 3.9 m (12′ 10″) plywood 0
Houdini John Welsford Sail 4.1 m (13′ 5″) plywood 0
International Twelve Foot Dinghy George Cockshott Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) n/a 0
Janette John Welsford Sail 3.68 m (12′ 1″) plywood 0
KIS 4.0 BCA Demco Sail 4 m (13′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
KIS 4.2S BCA Demco Sail 4.23 m (13′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
KIS 4.7 BCA Demco Sail 4.7 m (15′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
La Chatte Glen-L Marine Sail 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) plywood on frame 0
Lapwing 16 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 8″ (4.78 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Laughing Gull Arch Davis Design Sail 15′ 9″ (4.8 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Lion 450 Unik Yachts Sail 4.5 m (14′ 9″) plywood 0
Mini-Cup Stevenson Projects Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Minuet Glen-L Marine Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood on frame 0
Moonfish 14 Bateau Sail 14′ 5″ (4.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Nancy's China 15 Devlin Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Nancy's China DC 15 Devlin Sail 15′ 2″ (4.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Old Baggie BCA Demco Sail 4.6 m (15′ 1″) strip planked 0
Otter 16 Bateau Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Outrigger Junior Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 15′ 5″ (4.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Penobscot 13 Arch Davis Design Sail 12′ 9″ (3.89 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Penobscot 14 Arch Davis Design Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Ply-Flier Stevenson Projects Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
PocketShip Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 14′ 10″ (4.52 m) stitch and glue 0
Roberts 15 Bruce Roberts Sail 15′ 0″ (4.58 m) n/a 0
RoG 15 Micro-cruiser Bedard Yacht Design Sail 15′ 3″ (4.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Rogue John Welsford Sail 4.45 m (14′ 7″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Rundgatting no. 15 Båtritningar Sail 4.45 m (14′ 7″) n/a 0
Salmon Wherry 15.5 Bartender Boats Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) 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.