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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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Grey Seal Iain Oughtred Sail 22′ 2″ (6.76 m) glued lapstrake plywood 1
Idea 21 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.3 m (20′ 8″) radius chine plywood 1
Theresa ll Albert Strange Sail 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) n/a 1
20 ft Gaff Sloop Ragnar or Marconi Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) cold moulded 0
21 ft Gaff Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) C-Flex fibreglass 0
22 ft Cruising Cat or Topsail Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) cold moulded or Airex cored fibreglass 0
22 ft Gunkholer Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) carvel planked or plywood 0
22 ft Knockabout or Lug Sloop Benford Design Group Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
23 ft Canoe Yawl Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
23 ft Knockabout, Lug Slp., Mtrs'lr. Sourdough Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood 0
24 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) n/a 0
25 ft Gaff Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) carvel planked 0
25 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) cold moulded 0
Aletheia BCA Demco Sail 7.8 m (25′ 7″) strip planked 0
Amigo Glen-L Marine Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) strip planked 0
Arctic Tern 23 Devlin Sail 22′ 8″ (6.91 m) stitch and glue 0
Cape Canso 23 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 22′ 5″ (6.84 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape Henry 21 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Cape May 25 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 25′ 4″ (7.73 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Coaster Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 2″ (7.67 m) plywood on frame 0
Core Sound 20 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Core Sound 20 Mark 3 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Daysailer 24 BCA Demco Sail 7.31 m (24′ 0″) strip planked 0
Diapason 750 BCA Demco Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood 0
Didi 23 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Cruise-Mini Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Cruise-Mini Mk3 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Mini Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
Didi Mini Mk3 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 21′ 4″ (6.5 m) radius chine plywood 0
EC-22 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) n/a 0
Ensenada 25 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) plywood on frame 0
Escapist 24 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Faering Cruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 22′ 6″ (6.86 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Fancy Free Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 21CB Glen-L Marine Sail 21′ 3″ (6.48 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 25 - Fiberglass Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) fiberglass 0
Glen-L 25 - Plywood Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) plywood on frame 0
Glen-L 6.9 Glen-L Marine Sail 22′ 7″ (6.88 m) fiberglass 0
Glen-L 7.9 Glen-L Marine Sail 25′ 11″ (7.9 m) fiberglass 0
Gozzo 6.50m BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Haiku 700 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.2 m (20′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Hirundo 750 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Lotsbåt Skum no. 33 Båtritningar Sail 6.19 m (20′ 4″) n/a 0
Maimouna BCA Demco Sail 6.4 m (21′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Mandolin Cruise BCA Demco Sail 7.43 m (24′ 5″) strip planked 0
Marsh Wren 20 Devlin Sail 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Minuetto 650 charter BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Minuetto 650 crociera BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Minuetto 650 SPRINT BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Multichine 23 B&G Yacht Design Sail 7.2 m (23′ 7″) plywood on frame 0
Paloma Cabinata BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Paloma Daysailer BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Pantanal 25 B&G Yacht Design Sail 7.65 m (25′ 1″) composite 0
Penguin John Welsford Sail 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Pop 20 B&G Yacht Design Sail 6.2 m (20′ 4″) plywood on frame 0
Pop 25 B&G Yacht Design Sail 7.54 m (24′ 9″) plywood on frame 0
Princess Sharpie 22 B&B Yacht Designs Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Roberts 25 Bruce Roberts Sail 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) n/a 0
Saltaspiaggia Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.1 m (20′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Sanpiera BCA Demco Sail 6.98 m (22′ 11″) 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.