Plans & Kits

4.80 m Plywood stitch & glue solo canoe.

Fun / Lightweight / Simple & ClassicSpecifications:

• LOA 11′ 7″
• LWL 8′ 6″
• Beam 48 3/4″
• Draft (board up/down) 5″/27″
• Depth amidships 14 1/2″
• Sail Area 50 (lug) 45 sf (sprit)

Key Features:

COASTWORKER 30 Build in steel or aluminum

The Headwater TRANSPORT 9.9 is an easily Car-Topped Pram Dinghy with a constant deadrise 10 deg. V-bottom Planing Hull  with lifting chine strips.  Bow and stern seats provide level flotation if the hull is swamped, and also provide dry storage if watertight closures are installed. 

Small blue water cruiser with Junk rig, inside steering station, and accommodation for up to four persons.
Suitable for home boatbuilders, all wood construction, lead ballast cast in small pigs.

These completely new designs were developed at CLC in response to a growing constituency of skilled paddlers seeking waterborne sports cars for racing, exercise, or just plain fun.

Badger gained widespread fame as the subject of the book Voyaging On A Small Income. The concept of this design was to use the basic interior accommodation plan that worked so well on the 34′ Topsail Ketch Sunrise, which was evolved and improved on during the decade that I lived aboard her.

Design Specs:
Flat Bottom
Open Boat
LOA. 17′-3″ (5.2m)
Beam 6′ (1.8m)
Weight 450 lbs (204 kg)
Material Plywood, Hard Wood
Fiberglass, Other.
Recommended hp. 25

The GYPSY 28 was the Woods Designs’ own cruising boat for five very successful years. It was designed as an easy-to-build budget ocean cruiser and many are now sailing in all corners of the world.

“Pinocchio” was commissioned by my 7 year old son who wanted to learn paddling. He saw these kids paddling in small plastic kayaks which looked more like “bricks” or “barges” rather than boats.