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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21' Garvey-Flex-Boot Boatkits Power 6.54 m (21′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
25' Motorboot Boatkits Power 7.75 m (25′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
Abaco 23 Bateau Power 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) stitch and glue 0
Acorn 21 Bateau Multihull 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Archimedes 22 Devlin Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Arctic Tern 23 Devlin Sail 22′ 8″ (6.91 m) stitch and glue 0
Banjo 20 Outboard Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Blue Blazer 25 Devlin Power 25′ 3″ (7.7 m) stitch and glue 0
Bullfrog 20 Devlin Power 20′ 3″ (6.17 m) stitch and glue 0
Carolina Express 25 Bateau Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Carolina Sportfish 23 Bateau Power 23′ 2″ (7.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Carolina Sportfish 25 Bateau Power 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) stitch and glue 0
Cat 22 Bateau Multihull 21′ 6″ (6.55 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Sport Tandem Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 8″ (6.6 m) stitch and glue 0
Chesapeake Triple Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Chinook 21 Devlin Power 20′ 9″ (6.33 m) stitch and glue 0
Classic 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 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
Curlew 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Curlew 24 Devlin Power 24′ 10″ (7.57 m) stitch and glue 0
Down East Cruiser 23 Bateau Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Down East Cruiser 25 Bateau Power 24′ 11″ (7.61 m) stitch and glue 0
Dunlin 22 Cruiser Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Dunlin 22 Pilothouse Devlin Power 21′ 7″ (6.59 m) stitch and glue 0
E-Cat 24 Bateau Multihull 23′ 9″ (7.24 m) stitch and glue 0
Extreme Flats 20 Bateau Power 20′ 4″ (6.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Extreme Flats 22 Bateau Power 22′ 1″ (6.73 m) stitch and glue 0
Fairhaven Flyer 20 Devlin Row 20′ 4″ (6.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Gannet 25 Devlin Power 24′ 9″ (7.54 m) stitch and glue 0
General Purpose 21 Bateau Power 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) stitch and glue 0
Godzilla 22 Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Godzilla 25 Devlin Power 24′ 8″ (7.52 m) stitch and glue 0
GT Cruiser 23 Bateau Power 23′ 6″ (7.16 m) stitch and glue 0
Haiku 700 Modern Wooden Boat Sail 6.2 m (20′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
Hideaway 22 Devlin Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) stitch and glue 0
Honker H.B. 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Houseboat 20 Bateau Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Janus 22' Full Bateau Multihull 21′ 10″ (6.65 m) stitch and glue 0
Krista-x Rower 24 Devlin Row 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Lingcod 24 Devlin Power 24′ 1″ (7.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Little Cod 21 Devlin Power 21′ 5″ (6.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Long Lake Long Lake Wooden Boats Row 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
Maia 24 Bateau Power 23′ 7″ (7.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Maimouna BCA Demco Sail 6.4 m (21′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Marsh Wren 20 Devlin Sail 20′ 2″ (6.15 m) stitch and glue 0
MASH 24 Family Cruiser Bedard Yacht Design Power 24′ 4″ (7.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Mbuli - A Pacific Proa Chesapeake Light Craft Multihull 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Millie Hill 20 Devlin Power 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Mini Maia 21 Bateau Power 21′ 2″ (6.45 m) stitch and glue 0
Mud Dauber 22 H.B. Devlin Power 21′ 11″ (6.67 m) stitch and glue 0
Mud Dauber 23 Devlin Power 23′ 1″ (7.05 m) stitch and glue 0
MugWump 22 Devlin Power 23′ 7″ (7.19 m) stitch and glue 0
Nina 22 Bateau Power 21′ 9″ (6.63 m) stitch and glue 0
North Haven 24 Devlin Power 23′ 10″ (7.26 m) stitch and glue 0
Novi 23 Bateau Power 22′ 10″ (6.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Open Pilot 21 Bateau Power 20′ 11″ (6.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Orca 21 Bateau Paddle 20′ 9″ (6.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Oxford Shell II Chesapeake Light Craft Row 20′ 10″ (6.35 m) 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.