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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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Hornolo Yannick Maignien Sail 18′ 1″ (5.5 m) plywood 1
11 ft Night Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) plywood 0
18 ft Cat Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) plywood 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
23 ft Knockabout, Lug Slp., Mtrs'lr. Sourdough Benford Design Group Sail 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) plywood 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 Flattie Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) plywood 0
3-In-1 Stevenson Projects Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 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 Sailing Dory Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) plywood 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
34 ft Sailing Dory Badger Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) plywood 0
45 ft Dory Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) plywood 0
Alli8 Sailing Pram Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood 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
Bay River Skiff B&B Yacht Designs Sail 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) plywood 0
Bora Bora 28 B&G Yacht Design Sail 8.53 m (28′ 0″) plywood 0
Breeze Baby Grandpa's Archive Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
Cherub John Spencer Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 0
CLC Kayak/Canoe SailRig Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Cruising Sloop Butler Projects Sail 18′ 1″ (5.51 m) plywood 0
Daniels Boat John Welsford Sail 3.2 m (10′ 6″) plywood 0
Diapason 750 BCA Demco Sail 7.5 m (24′ 7″) plywood 0
FireBug John Spencer Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
Glen-L 10 Glen-L Marine Sail 9′ 11″ (3.02 m) plywood 0
Golden Bay Setnet John Welsford Sail 3.9 m (12′ 10″) plywood 0
Houdini John Welsford Sail 4.1 m (13′ 5″) plywood 0
Janette John Welsford Sail 3.68 m (12′ 1″) plywood 0
Kiwi PDR John Welsford Sail 2.44 m (8′ 0″) plywood 0
Lion 1050 Unik Yachts Sail 10.5 m (34′ 5″) plywood 0
Lion 450 Unik Yachts Sail 4.5 m (14′ 9″) plywood 0
Lion 550 Unik Yachts Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 0
Lion 600 Unik Yachts Sail 6 m (19′ 8″) plywood 0
Lion 870 Unik Yachts Sail 8.7 m (28′ 7″) plywood 0
Long Steps John Welsford Sail n/a plywood 0
Mini-Cup Stevenson Projects Sail 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) plywood 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
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
Pathfinder John Welsford Sail n/a plywood 0
Pelegrin John Welsford Sail 5.15 m (16′ 11″) plywood 0
Penguin John Welsford Sail 6.4 m (21′ 0″) plywood 0
Penguin Class Dinghy Philip Rhodes Sail 11′ 5″ (3.48 m) plywood 0
Pilgrim John Welsford Sail 5 m (16′ 5″) plywood 0
Ply-Flier Stevenson Projects Sail 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) plywood 0
Pocket Cruiser Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 6″ (5.33 m) plywood 0
Saturday Night Special John Welsford Sail 4.47 m (14′ 8″) plywood 0
SCAMP John Welsford Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood 0
Sphera BCA Demco Sail 9.94 m (32′ 7″) plywood 0
Spray 22 Bruce Roberts Sail 24′ 0″ (7.31 m) plywood 0
Sundowner John Welsford Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) plywood 0
Super Skipjack Stevenson Projects Sail 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) plywood 0
Swaggie John Welsford Sail 5.5 m (18′ 1″) plywood 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.