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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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Polliwog 8 Devlin Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) stitch and glue 1
Ultralight Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) stitch and glue 1
10' Garvey Jolle Boatkits Power 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
10' Jolle Boatkits Row 3.08 m (10′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
10' Ruderboot Boatkits Row 3.12 m (10′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
11' Jolle Boatkits Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
11' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.4 m (11′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
Argie 10 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Baby Boat Cradle Manta Marine Design Other 1.2 m (3′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
Bella 10 Skiff Devlin Row 9′ 8″ (2.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 12 Devlin Row 11′ 7″ (3.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Breeze Plyboat Paddle 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Broadbill 11 Devlin Power 10′ 8″ (3.25 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
Cocktail Class Racer Chesapeake Light Craft Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Colibri Plyboat Row 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Corsair 11 Bateau Sail 10′ 9″ (3.28 m) stitch and glue 0
Crayfish 8 Woods Designs Row 2.44 m (8′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Deckster Woodenwidget Row 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 360 BCA Demco Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Dinghy 5 Bateau Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) stitch and glue 0
Dingo Plyboat Row 2 m (6′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Dinky Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 0″ (2.13 m) stitch and glue 0
Dixi Dinghy 8 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 8′ 2″ (2.5 m) stitch and glue 0
Drift Pram Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Duo 10 Woods Designs Sail 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Dyno Jet Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Dyno Mite Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Eight Ball S&G Glen-L Marine Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Fast Garvey 10 Bateau Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Flat Skiff 12 Bateau Power 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) stitch and glue 0
Giormax BCA Demco Sail 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Glass Bottom Glen-L Marine Other 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) stitch and glue 0
Goldfish Plyboat Paddle 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Chesapeake Light Craft Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Gosling 10 Devlin Row 10′ 11″ (3.32 m) stitch and glue 0
Guppy 9 Devlin Row 9′ 1″ (2.77 m) stitch and glue 0
Happy Hour Plyboat Paddle 2.8 m (9′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
Jon Boat / Garvey 11 Bateau Power 11′ 1″ (3.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Junior BCA Demco Sail 2.9 m (9′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
Kid-Row Glen-L Marine Row 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Kidyak Glen-L Marine Paddle 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Lit'l Petrel 9 Devlin Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) stitch and glue 0
Long Weekend Plyboat Paddle 3.65 m (12′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
Matunuck Surf Kayak Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 8′ 6″ (2.59 m) stitch and glue 0
Mickey Mouse Plyboat Row 2.4 m (7′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Micro Petrel Devlin Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Mighty Mouse Plyboat Row 2.4 m (7′ 10″) 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
Mouse Grande Plyboat Row 2.34 m (7′ 8″) stitch and glue 0
Mud Peep 12 Devlin Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Nesting Dinghy 11 Bateau Row 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) stitch and glue 0
Nutshell 7 Bateau Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) stitch and glue 0
OzonaX Nesting Pram Bedard Yacht Design Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) stitch and glue 0
Paddlewheeler Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 8″ (2.34 m) stitch and glue 0
Pedal-It Glen-L Marine Paddle 9′ 4″ (2.85 m) stitch and glue 0
Peeper 12 Devlin Row 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Pinocchio Plyboat Paddle 2.34 m (7′ 8″) 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.