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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.

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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
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All Paddle  227 Row  229 Sail  418 Power  616 Multihull  108 Other  20
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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
Didi 26 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) radius chine plywood 1
Eland 36 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 36′ 5″ (11.11 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Voyager 432 Bruce Roberts Sail 46′ 3″ (14.1 m) radius chine steel or aluminum 1
131 ft Ketch Antonia Benford Design Group Sail 131′ 0″ (39.93 m) cold moulded 0
26 ft 3 in Cruising Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
26 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded 0
26 ft Raised Deck Twin Keel Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood 0
26 ft V-Bottom Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood 0
27 ft Cutter or Pilothouse Sloop or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
27 ft Flattie Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) plywood 0
30 ft 5 in & 31'-8" Sailing Dory Baby Badger Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 5″ (9.27 m) plywood 0
30 ft Double Ended Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
30 ft Sailing Dory Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) plywood 0
31 ft Auxiliary Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 31′ 0″ (9.45 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
32 ft Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) n/a 0
32 ft Double Ended Ketch or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) cold moulded or strip planked 0
32 ft Pinky Ketch Dawn Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) carvel planked 0
32 ft Sailing Dory Shoestring Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) plywood 0
32 ft St. Pierre Dory Proctor Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) plywood 0
33 Cruiser Racer Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 33′ 2″ (10.1 m) fiberglass 0
33 ft Auxiliary Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) cold moulded 0
34 ft 6 in Schooner or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 6″ (10.52 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
34 ft Pinky Ketch Sunrise Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) carvel planked 0
34 ft Sailing Dory Badger Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) plywood 0
35 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) cold moulded 0
35 ft Double Ended Cutter or Ketch Mercedes Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or steel chine or round bilge steel 0
35 ft Double Ended Schooner Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) cold moulded 0
35 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) carvel planked 0
36 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) cold moulded 0
36 ft D.E. or Pilothouse Cutter Cape Scott 36 Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass 0
36 ft Sailing Dory Donna Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) aluminium or Airex cored fibreglass or plywood 0
37 ft 6 in Sailing Dory Benford Design Group Sail 37′ 6″ (11.43 m) aluminium or Airex cored fibreglass or plywood 0
37 ft Pilothouse Cutter or Ketch Corcovado Benford Design Group Sail 37′ 0″ (11.28 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
38 ft Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
39 ft D.E. Cutter Antares or Ketch Oracle Benford Design Group Sail 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) n/a 0
39 ft D.E. Cutter Prometheus Benford Design Group Sail 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
39 ft Yawl Benford Design Group Sail 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) n/a 0
40 ft Brigantine Benford Design Group Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) steel chine 0
40 ft Double Ended Cutter or Pilothouse Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
40 ft Motorsailer K'AN Benford Design Group Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked 0
40 ft Skipjack Benford Design Group Sail 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) plywood or steel chine 0
41 ft DE Cutter Quiet Bird or P.H. Cutter Clayton Benford Design Group Sail 41′ 0″ (12.5 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass 0
42 ft Topsail Schooner or Ketch or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
43 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 43′ 0″ (13.11 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
44 ft Cat Ketch Boundary Bay 44 Benford Design Group Sail 44′ 0″ (13.41 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
45 ft 6 in Cutter or Ketch Orphan Annie Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 6″ (13.87 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
45 ft Cat Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) steel chine 0
45 ft Dory Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) plywood 0
45 ft Double Ended Ketch or Topsail Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) cold moulded or glass over strip planking or round bilge steel 0
45 ft Fantail Cutter Argonauta Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) cold moulded or steel chine 0
45 ft Lug Schooner Inscrutable or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) steel chine 0
46 ft Ketch Toketee , Motorsailer or Brigantine Benford Design Group Sail 46′ 0″ (14.02 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded 0
48 ft 10 in Ketch Apache West Benford Design Group Sail 48′ 10″ (14.88 m) n/a 0
50 ft C. B. Ketch Chanty or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) n/a 0
50 ft Double Ended Ketch or Brigantine/Trader Benford Design Group Sail 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or round bilge steel 0
54 ft 6 in Pilothouse Cutter Ramblin' Rose Benford Design Group Sail 54′ 6″ (16.61 m) round bilge steel 0
60 ft Double Ended Cutter Wild Hare Benford Design Group Sail 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
60 ft Ketch Harambee Benford Design Group Sail 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) n/a 0
60 ft Topsail Schooner Benford Design Group Sail 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) cold moulded 0
65 ft Pilothouse Cutter Canvasback Benford Design Group Sail 65′ 0″ (19.81 m) aluminium 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.