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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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Any stitch and glue  510 plywood on frame  243 plywood  199 strip planked  135 cold molded wood  42 composite  31 lapstrake plywood  30 skin on frame  23 glued lapstrake plywood  20 fiberglass  20 radius chine plywood  17 steel chine  16
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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Didi 26 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) radius chine plywood 1
Eland 36 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 36′ 5″ (11.11 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Voyager 432 Bruce Roberts Sail 46′ 3″ (14.1 m) radius chine steel or aluminum 1
131 ft Ketch Antonia Benford Design Group Sail 131′ 0″ (39.93 m) cold moulded 0
26 ft 3 in Cruising Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 3″ (8 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
26 ft Day Boat Benford Design Group Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) plywood 0
26 ft Deadrise Boat or Trawler Yacht Benford Design Group Power 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) carvel planked or plywood 0
26 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded 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 6 in Trawler Yacht Benford Design Group Power 27′ 6″ (8.38 m) n/a 0
27 ft Cutter or Pilothouse Sloop or Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
27 ft Deadrise Boat Benford Design Group Power 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) carvel planked 0
27 ft Flattie Benford Design Group Sail 27′ 0″ (8.23 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 Beaching Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) aluminium 0
30 ft Deadrise Boat Petrel Benford Design Group Power 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) carvel planked or plywood or steel chine 0
30 ft Double Ended Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
30 ft Friday Harbor Ferry & Waterbed 30 Benford Design Group Power 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) plywood 0
30 ft Sailing Dory Benford Design Group Sail 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) plywood 0
30 ft Seagoing Powerboat or Ship Benford Design Group Power 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) n/a 0
30 ft Twin Screw Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) carvel planked 0
31 ft Auxiliary Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 31′ 0″ (9.45 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
32 ft Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) cold moulded or strip planked 0
32 ft Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) n/a 0
32 ft Double Ended Ketch or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) cold moulded or strip planked 0
32 ft Pinky Ketch Dawn Benford Design Group Sail 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) carvel planked 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
32 ft Trawler Yacht Ladybug Benford Design Group Power 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) cold moulded or strip planked 0
32 ft Tug Yacht Benford Design Group Power 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) Airex cored fibreglass or steel chine 0
33 Cruiser Racer Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 33′ 2″ (10.1 m) fiberglass 0
33 ft Auxiliary Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) cold moulded 0
34 ft 6 in Schooner or Cutter Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 6″ (10.52 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
34 ft Fantail Cruiser Memory & Solarium 34 Benford Design Group Power 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) cold moulded 0
34 ft Friday Harbor Ferry Benford Design Group Power 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) Airex cored fibreglass or plywood 0
34 ft Pinky Ketch Sunrise Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) carvel planked 0
34 ft Sailing Dory Badger Benford Design Group Sail 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) plywood 0
35 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) cold moulded 0
35 ft Double Ended Cutter or Ketch Mercedes Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or steel chine or round bilge steel 0
35 ft Double Ended Schooner Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) cold moulded 0
35 ft Motorsailer Benford Design Group Sail 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) carvel planked 0
35 ft Packet/Coaster or Tramp Benford Design Group Power 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) plywood or steel chine 0
35 ft Trawler Yacht Strumpet Benford Design Group Power 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) carvel planked 0
35 ft Tug Yacht Benford Design Group Power 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded 0
36 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) cold moulded 0
36 ft Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) plywood 0
36 ft D.E. or Pilothouse Cutter Cape Scott 36 Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass 0
36 ft Power Dory Benford Design Group Power 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) steel chine 0
36 ft Sailing Dory Donna Benford Design Group Sail 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) aluminium or Airex cored fibreglass or plywood 0
37 ft 6 in Sailing Dory Benford Design Group Sail 37′ 6″ (11.43 m) aluminium or Airex cored fibreglass or plywood 0
37 ft Pilothouse Cutter or Ketch Corcovado Benford Design Group Sail 37′ 0″ (11.28 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine 0
37 ft Tug Yacht Benford Design Group Power 37′ 0″ (11.28 m) steel chine 0
38 ft 6 in Coaster Investigator Benford Design Group Power 38′ 6″ (11.74 m) aluminium 0
38 ft Fantail Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) cold moulded 0
38 ft Ketch Benford Design Group Sail 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
38 ft Packet Benford Design Group Power 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) plywood 0
38 ft Tug Yacht Benford Design Group Power 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) Airex cored fibreglass 0
39 ft Cruiser Benford Design Group Power 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) plywood 0
39 ft D.E. Cutter Antares or Ketch Oracle Benford Design Group Sail 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) n/a 0

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