Model boat designs

Wooden model boats, with the build logs attached

Model ships and boats built from a kit or plans: plank on frame, plank on bulkhead and solid hull, display models and wooden hulls fitted for radio control. Pick a kit to see every build log of it and how long it really took.

106 wooden model kits from 12 makers are listed here, from a beginner’s solid-hull runabout to a plank-on-frame ship of the line. Every page carries the scale, the length, how the hull goes together and how hard the kit is, and every build log anyone here has kept of it. We do not sell kits or plans; each page links to the maker.

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By kit maker

All Model Shipways 14 Artesania Latina 10 Amati 10 Billing Boats 10 Occre 9 Caldercraft 9 Vanguard Models 9 Bluejacket 9 Dumas 8 Corel 7 Chesapeake Light Craft 6 Midwest 5

By type

All Paddle 2 Row 12 Sail 63 Power 28 Other 1

By skill

Any Beginner 20 Intermediate 36 Advanced 14 Can be fitted for RC 10

By length

Any Under 18″ 18–30″ 30–42″ Over 42″

By construction

Any plank on bulkhead 17 double plank on bulkhead 16 plank on frame 14 stitch and glue 5 plank on frame (laser-cut keel and frames), double planked 4 solid hull 3 plank on frame (laser-cut wood), double planked 1 plank on frame (laser-cut keel, frames and decks), double planked 1 double planked over laser-cut frames 1 plank on frame (laser-cut keel and frames) 1 plank on frame (laser-cut keel and frames), single planked 1 plywood on frame 1

Sort

Most logs Name A–Z Shortest first Longest first

21 boats

Model	Kit maker	Type	Length	Scale
Bevin's Skiff Scale Model	Chesapeake Light Craft	Row	17½″ (45 cm)	1:8
Boston Whitehall Tender	Midwest	Row	12″ (31 cm)	1:14
Bounty Boat	Occre	Row	17″ (44 cm)	1:24
Chesapeake Bay Flattie	Midwest	Sail	10½″ (27 cm)	1:32
Ernest Hemingway's Pilar	Model Shipways	Power	16″ (41 cm)	1:30
Fifie Lady Eleanor	Vanguard Models	Sail	15″ (38 cm)	1:64
HMS Bounty Jolly Boat	Artesania Latina	Row	16½″ (42 cm)	1:25
Indian Girl Canoe	Midwest	Paddle	16″ (41 cm)	1:12
Lackawanna	Bluejacket	Power	17½″ (44 cm)	1:96
Lincolnville Wherry	Bluejacket	Row	15½″ (40 cm)	1:12
Mare Nostrum	Artesania Latina	Power	16″ (41 cm)	1:35
Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack	Model Shipways	Sail	14½″ (37 cm)	1:24
New Bedford Whale Boat	Bluejacket	Row	10″ (25 cm)	1:36
Norden	Billing Boats	Power	13½″ (35 cm)	1:30
Palamos	Occre	Power	16″ (41 cm)	1:45
Paranza	Corel	Sail	13½″ (34 cm)	1:25
Saucy Jack Barking Well-Smack	Vanguard Models	Sail	16½″ (43 cm)	1:64
Skipjack	Dumas	Sail	12″ (31 cm)	n/a
The Indian Girl Canoe	Artesania Latina	Paddle	12″ (31 cm)	1:16
USS Cairo	Bluejacket	Power	11½″ (29 cm)	1:192
Yacht America	Bluejacket	Sail	17″ (43 cm)	1:96

Kit 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.