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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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11 ft Night Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) plywood 0
11 ft Oregon Peapod Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
11 ft Sailing Dinghy with Transom Stern Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
11' Jolle Boatkits Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
3-In-1 Stevenson Projects Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
8 ft Portland Yawlboat Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
Alli8 Sailing Pram Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood 0
Argie 10 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Baby Baggie BCA Demco Sail 3.04 m (10′ 0″) strip planked 0
Buckboard Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood on frame 0
Bull's Eye Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) stitch and glue 0
Cat Boat 12 Bateau Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
CLC Kayak/Canoe SailRig Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Corsair 11 Bateau Sail 10′ 9″ (3.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Daniels Boat John Welsford Sail 3.2 m (10′ 6″) plywood 0
Dinghy 360 BCA Demco Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Dixi Dinghy 8 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 8′ 2″ (2.5 m) stitch and glue 0
Duo 10 Woods Designs Sail 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Feather Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) fiberglass 0
FireBug John Spencer Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
Foamee Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) fiberglass 0
Giormax BCA Demco Sail 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Glen-L 10 Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 11″ (3.02 m) plywood 0
Glen-L 11 Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 2″ (3.4 m) strip planked 0
Junior BCA Demco Sail 2.9 m (9′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
Kiwi PDR John Welsford Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
L Gato Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood on frame 0
Mirror Dinghy Jack Holt Sail 10′ 10″ (3.3 m) stitch and glue 0
Moth BCA Demco Sail 3.35 m (11′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Mud Peep 12 Devlin Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Norwegian Pram 10 Butler Projects Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Norwegian Pram 8 Butler Projects Sail 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
OzonaX Nesting Pram Bedard Yacht Design Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Penguin Class Dinghy Philip Rhodes Sail 11′ 5″ (3.48 m) plywood 0
Polly BCA Demco Sail 2.93 m (9′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Rhodes Wherry Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 10′ 7″ (3.23 m) lapstrake 0
Saboteer Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 7″ (2.92 m) plywood on frame 0
Sabotina Glen-L Marine Sail 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Sand Dollar Arch Davis Design Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) lapstrake plywood 0
SCAMP John Welsford Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood 0
Scheggia BCA Demco Sail 3.02 m (9′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
Spritz! BCA Demco Sail 2.95 m (9′ 8″) stitch and glue 0
Sunshine Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) lapstrake 0
Tenderly 10-foot Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) lapstrake plywood 0
Topper Glen-L Marine Sail 10′ 8″ (3.25 m) plywood 0
Truant John Welsford Sail 3.5 m (11′ 6″) plywood 0
Zen BCA Demco Sail 2.98 m (9′ 9″) 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.