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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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Aletheia BCA Demco Sail 7.8 m (25′ 7″) strip planked 0
Amigo Glen-L Marine Sail 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) strip planked 0
Capriccio BCA Demco Power 6.42 m (21′ 1″) strip planked 0
Daysailer 24 BCA Demco Sail 7.31 m (24′ 0″) strip planked 0
Eagle Glen-L Marine Power 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) strip planked 0
Fast Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 25′ 6″ (7.77 m) strip planked 0
Gozzo 6.50m BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Great Auk Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) strip planked 0
Guillemot Double Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) strip planked 0
Harbormaster Glen-L Marine Power 23′ 2″ (7.06 m) strip planked 0
Mandolin Cruise BCA Demco Sail 7.43 m (24′ 5″) strip planked 0
Merlin Woods Designs Multihull 7.65 m (25′ 1″) strip planked 0
Mystery Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) strip planked 0
Paloma 650 open BCA Demco Power 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Paloma Cabinata BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Paloma Daysailer BCA Demco Sail 6.5 m (21′ 4″) strip planked 0
Reliance Tandem Steve Killing Paddle 20′ 8″ (6.3 m) strip planked 0
Sango Woods Designs Multihull 7.7 m (25′ 3″) strip planked 0
Trillo BCA Demco Multihull 7.5 m (24′ 7″) strip planked 0
Wizard Woods Designs Multihull 6.7 m (22′ 0″) strip planked 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.