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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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Cape Cutter 19 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Hornolo Yannick Maignien Sail 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 1
16 ft Conch Ad Libitum Sailing Tender Benford Design Group Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood bottom with lapstrake sides 0
17 ft Catboat Puffin & Cruising Cat Liberty Benford Design Group Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
17 ft Cruising Sloop or Yawl or Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
18 ft Canoe Yawl Iota , Catboat or Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) cold moulded 0
18 ft Cat Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 0
19 ft Cr. Cat, Slp, Lug Slp, Yawl Scrimshaw Benford Design Group Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked 0
19 ft Gunkholer Catspaw Benford Design Group Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
19 ft Sailing Dory Butler Projects Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) plywood 0
6 M Whaler John Welsford Sail 5.99 m (19′ 8″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Adelie 16 Bateau Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Alpha 2 Glen-L Marine Sail 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) plywood 0
Autumn Leaves Canoe Yawl Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 18′ 5″ (5.61 m) plywood 0
AWOL John Welsford Sail 5.05 m (16′ 7″) plywood 0
Belhaven 19 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) stitch and glue 0
Blue Moon Grandpa's Archive Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 0
BRIO 555 BCA Demco Sail 5.55 m (18′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
Caledonia Yawl Iain Oughtred Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Cat Ketch 17 Bateau Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) stitch and glue 0
CC19 Dayboat Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Core Sound 17 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 17 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) stitch and glue 0
Cruising Sloop Butler Projects Sail 18′ 1″ (5.51 m) plywood 0
Duckling 17 Sailing Version Devlin Sail 17′ 3″ (5.27 m) stitch and glue 0
Eider 17 Devlin Sail 17′ 4″ (5.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Expedition Sailing Canoe B&B Yacht Designs Sail 17′ 9″ (5.41 m) stitch and glue 0
Glen-L 17 Glen-L Marine Sail 17′ 3″ (5.26 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 19 Glen-L Marine Sail 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) plywood on frame 0
Hanzeyawl Manta Marine Design Sail 5.9 m (19′ 4″) n/a 0
Hommebåt no. 22 Båtritningar Sail 4.97 m (16′ 4″) n/a 0
Hommebåt no. 25 Båtritningar Sail 6.07 m (19′ 11″) n/a 0
Idea 19 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6 m (19′ 8″) strip planked 0
John's Sharpie Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 18′ 1″ (5.51 m) stitch and glue 0
Lichen 20 Devlin Sail 19′ 7″ (5.97 m) stitch and glue 0
Lion 550 Unik Yachts Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Lion 600 Unik Yachts Sail 6 m (19′ 8″) plywood 0
Lit'l Coot 18 Bilge Keel Devlin Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Lit'l Coot 18 Full Keel Devlin Sail 17′ 10″ (5.45 m) stitch and glue 0
Missile Grandpa's Archive Sail 19′ 6″ (5.94 m) plywood on frame 0
Naskeag 16 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 16′ 2″ (4.92 m) stitch and glue 0
Newfoundland Trap Skiff Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 19′ 3″ (5.87 m) lapstrake 0
Pelegrin John Welsford Sail 5.15 m (16′ 11″) plywood 0
Penobscot 17 Arch Davis Design Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Piepowder 16 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 16′ 7″ (5.05 m) fiberglass 0
Pilgrim John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Pocket Cruiser Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) plywood 0
PUCK 550 BCA Demco Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
Roberts 19 Bruce Roberts Sail 19′ 3″ (5.86 m) cold molded wood 0
Salmon Wherry 17 Bartender Boats Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) n/a 0
Salmon Wherry 19 Bartender Boats Sail 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) n/a 0
SAM BCA Demco Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) strip planked 0
Scud II Bartender Boats Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) n/a 0
Sentinel Explorer 18 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Sid Skiff Ray Speck Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) n/a 0
Snipa Capella no. 7 Båtritningar Sail 5.49 m (18′ 0″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 10 Båtritningar Sail 5.48 m (18′ 0″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 30 Båtritningar Sail 5.4 m (17′ 8″) n/a 0
Snipa no. 9 Båtritningar Sail 5.39 m (17′ 8″) n/a 0
Solution Grandpa's Archive Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) plywood on frame 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.