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Plans & Kits
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.
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749 Results
Motorboats - Outboard
Point Comfort 23
This boat is a larger version of my popular POINT COMFORT 18, a traditional Chesapeake Bay workboat type reinterpreted for simpler and more modern construction.
Oar / Paddle
Sea Island Sport
The Sea Island Sport is CLC’s response to hundreds of requests for an attractive stitch-and-glue sit-on-top kayak. Credit for the design goes to Nick Schade.
Motorboats - Inboard
COASTER SERIES, 27,28,32,36,39
- Trawler Yachts & Work Boats
Sailboats - Daysailers
Passagemaker Dinghy Take-Apart
Here's a handy boat that can be rowed, sailed, and powered with up to three large adults, and it "nests" to take up less space.
Oar / Paddle
Solo Packette
The Solo Packette is designed for those searching for pack canoe that they can carry to even through the most difficult approaches.
Oar / Paddle
Solo Quick
The Solo Quick blends efficiency, weight carrying capacity and beauty. Paddlers will find that her lean entry and minimalist profile make for a surprisingly quick and versatile hull.
Sailboats - Cruising
Half Model Plan PETREL
Cutter designed by John Hyslop in 1876. An early combination of English and American ideas, PETREL was designed according to the wave form theory.You’ll receive 2 pages of plans historical information about the boat and step-by-step instructions for half-hull building,using the lift method.The pl
Sailboats - Cruising
Guillemot
Construction: Glued lapstrake clinker plywood. Alternative construction: Traditional plank, cold molded and strip plank.
Sail Area: Lug 62 sq. ft.
Gunter sloop 72 sq. ft.
No Lofting required.
Plans include 6 sheets.
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Boat Launchings
Boat Launchings
Restoring an Old Skiff
I bought the boat in 2012 from the original builder in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Classified
Classified
2018 Wooden Seaskiff
Custom built at Madisonville Maritime Museum. 2019 19' magic tilt galvanized trailer.
Classified
Custom John Brooks 10' Rowing/Sailing Dinghy with Plexiglass Bottom
Custom row boat built by Brooks Boats in Mt. Desert, Maine.
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Wooden ElToro 8' pram
El Toro one design in nice shape. Go sailing or refinish for a showpiece.