boatbuildlog

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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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
11' Jolle Boatkits Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Argie 10 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) stitch and glue 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
Corsair 11 Bateau Sail 10′ 9″ (3.28 m) stitch and glue 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
Giormax BCA Demco Sail 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Junior BCA Demco Sail 2.9 m (9′ 6″) stitch and glue 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
OzonaX Nesting Pram Bedard Yacht Design Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Polly BCA Demco Sail 2.93 m (9′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Sabotina Glen-L Marine Sail 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) stitch and glue 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
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.