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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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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Cabin Skiff Glen-L Marine Power 16′ 3″ (4.95 m) stitch and glue 1
Jimmy Skiff II Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) stitch and glue 1
Paper Jet 14 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 13′ 5″ (4.1 m) stitch and glue 1
Polliwog 8 Devlin Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) stitch and glue 1
Solo Flats Skiff (SK14) Bateau Power 14′ 0″ (4.27 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
12' Garvey Jolle Boatkits Power 3.76 m (12′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
12' Ruderboot Boatkits Row 3.7 m (12′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
13' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.9 m (12′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
13' Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4 m (13′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
13' Kanu Boatkits Paddle 3.91 m (12′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
13' Kombi Kanu Boatkits Paddle 3.96 m (13′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
13' wPod Boatkits Sail 4.11 m (13′ 6″) stitch and glue 0
14' Garvey Jolle Boatkits Power 4.2 m (13′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
14' Motorjolle Boatkits Power 4.31 m (14′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
14' Motorkanu Boatkits Paddle 4.3 m (14′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
14' Paddle Board Boatkits Paddle 4.27 m (14′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
15' Doppelt Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4.65 m (15′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
15' Hollaendisches Boot Boatkits Power 4.59 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Jolle Boatkits Row 4.56 m (15′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
15' Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4.7 m (15′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
15' Kanu Boatkits Paddle 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Okwata-Kajak Boatkits Paddle 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Ruderkatamaran Boatkits Row 4.59 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
15' Seekajak Boatkits Paddle 4.6 m (15′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16' Flachbuendiges Kanu Boatkits Paddle 4.8 m (15′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
16' Kahn mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 4.8 m (15′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
16' Seecruiser Boatkits Power 4.91 m (16′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16' Seekajak Boatkits Paddle 4.9 m (16′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
16' Segelboot Boatkits Sail 4.54 m (14′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
16' Speedboot Boatkits Power 4.63 m (15′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
16' Tourenkanu Boatkits Paddle 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
17' Ausflugsboot Boatkits Power 5 m (16′ 5″) stitch and glue 0
17' Kanu Boatkits Paddle 5.28 m (17′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
17' Motorboot Boatkits Power 5.24 m (17′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
17' Ruderkanu Boatkits Paddle 5.2 m (17′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
18' Jolle Boatkits Power 5.48 m (18′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
18' Seecruiser Boatkits Power 5.59 m (18′ 4″) stitch and glue 0
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
Adelie 14 Bateau Sail 14′ 6″ (4.42 m) stitch and glue 0
Adelie 16 Bateau Sail 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) stitch and glue 0
Alenu 540 Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 5.4 m (17′ 9″) stitch and glue 0
Alexa’s Rocket 15 Bateau Sail 15′ 6″ (4.72 m) stitch and glue 0
Amak 26 Tugboat Devlin Power 26′ 3″ (8 m) stitch and glue 0
Amak 32 Devlin Power 32′ 4″ (9.86 m) stitch and glue 0
Amak 38 Devlin Power 37′ 4″ (11.38 m) stitch and glue 0
Amak 44 Devlin Power 43′ 10″ (13.36 m) stitch and glue 0
Amanda B&B Yacht Designs Paddle 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) stitch and glue 0
Amp Eater Glen-L Marine Power 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) stitch and glue 0
Angus Expedition Rowboat Chesapeake Light Craft Row 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) stitch and glue 0
Angus Oxford Wherry Chesapeake Light Craft Row 15′ 10″ (4.83 m) stitch and glue 0
Angus RowCruiser Chesapeake Light Craft Row 19′ 0″ (5.79 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.