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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.
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Sailboats - Daysailers
Swifty 12
The Swifty 12 is the most popular boat in the Shell Boats fleet, with several hundred built from our kits and plans. Docile and easily handled, the Swifty will plane on a reach in a good breeze, but you will have to work very hard to get it to capsize.
Sirene du Saloum
We have been totally inspired by the traditional, beautiful and extraordinarily functional Senegalese pirogues for the design of the hulls of the SIRENE DU SALOUM.
Oar / Paddle
Sassafras 12
An ultralight solo pack canoe weighing in at 26 lbs. Carry the boat in one hand, your paddle in the other.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Skerrieskiff 17'
Construction - Glued Lapstrake clinker plywood. No Lofting required. Plans include 5 sheets with instructions. Sail Area - 67 sq. ft.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Start 42
The Start 42 is designed to sail very very fast as a 14 ft international.
Pixie 14 sailing catamaran
The 14ft PIXIE is an entry level car toppable beach cat that has proved extremely popular, with hundreds now sold worldwide. It has often been built by Scout groups or as school projects. WoodenBoat Store markets this design.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Milford 20
The Milford 20 is a trailer-able shoal draft sharpie schooner modelled on the New Haven sharpies of the late 19th. century. It was inspired by Mark Fitzgerald’s FLORIDAYS design, as published in Reuel Parker’s Sharpie Book and featured in Watercraft Magazine.
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Ed Monk Sloop
Built in 1940 by Ira Hall in Seattle. Ed Monk design. 22' loa and 20' on deck.
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26ft Maurice Griffiths 'Athene' design sailing boat
Tegolin is a 26ft Maurice Griffiths 'Athene' design with triple keels and 3ft draft.
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Adirondack boat- 3' beam
Adirondack boat- 3' beam, shallow draft, approximately 70lbs, cedar strip, maple oars, epoxy shel