If you’re in the market for a boat to build, this directory of Boat Plans & Kits is a fine place to start. And if your company sells plans or kits, we invite you to list your offerings here. There is no charge for listing, but the featured boats must be built of wood. To refine your search of this directory, use quotation marks. If you search Nutshell Pram Kit, you’ll receive all the listings that include the words Nutshell, Pram, and Kit. To refine your search, enter “Nutshell Pram Kit”; you’ll then see only the results for Nutshell Pram kits.
To refine your search, add quote marks. If you search Nutshell Pram Kit, you will get all the listings which include Nutshell, Pram, and Kit. To refine, search “Nutshell Pram Kit” and you’ll see just Nutshell Pram Kit results.
Feel the difference a proportionally correct sized kayak can make in your paddling enjoyment.
Kahuna Nui is intended for extended offshore cruising and living aboard. She is available as a sailing auxiliary or as a motorsailer with an enclosed pilothouse. She has a canoe hull for ease of construction, with a full keel for strength and security while cruising.
A thoroughly charming boat from the board of a highly respected designer, Eel exudes strength of character.
Construction: Strip, cold-molded, or carvel.
Alternative construction: Lapstrake.
Lofting required.
Plans include 4 sheets
As much functional sculpture as sea kayak, the Arctic Hawk™ could be the most refined stitch-and-glue watercraft anywhere in the world.
Here is another little skiff inspired by a Chesapeake Bay working craft.
The design of the boat comes by request of a customer who already owns a Charles W. Wittholz’s catboat and wanted to have a beautiful tender for his yacht.
ZEN is a very simple 10 Foot boat (www.diecipiedi.it) particularly narrow and therefore unstable. It is not the right boat for a beginner but, in the hands of a good helmsman, it may be fast.
The boat is nice to row - a good combination of tippy enough for an intermediate, yet after a few days a novice will get the hang of it.
This schooner is designed to be able to cruise offshore with a crew of four people.
Here heavy displacement and built down hull will make for a comfortable motion
The Town Class Sloop was originally designed in 1931 and built by Pert Lowell Company in Newbury,
The all wooden, completely finished sailboat, Elver Rose, was handcrafted by former owner, Rod Bu
