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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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.

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Clarence River Dory

Designer

John Welsford

Outboard motor workboat for 8 to 30 hp Shallow draft, high capacity, simple build.

Oar / Paddle

15' 6" Cottage Cruiser

Designer

Steve Killing Yacht Design

This boat is happy playing near the beach, on portages or off on a two week canoe trip.

Sailboats - Cruising

37' 3" Yawl, Controversy 36

Designer

Mt. Desrt Yacht Yard

Designed for strip-planking, the Controversy 36 features light displacement and good headroom, with light and open space throughout.

Construction: Strip-planked over bulkheads and frames

Lofting is required.

Plans include 16 sheets.

Sailboats - Daysailers

7' 7" Nutshell Sailing Kit

Designer

Joel White

Our pre-cut kits are cut by computer-guided routers to provide you with accurate parts. And, the kits come with just about everything needed except the elbow grease.The ladder frame—the “foundation” of the boat—is now included with the kit.

PALOMA OPEN

Designer

Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa

PALOMA is a simple, traditional and versatile boat which has been designed in three versions, as a small cruiser, as an open daysailer and as a motorboat.

Oar / Paddle

Fox Decked Double Paddle Canoe

Designer

Bill Thomas

Fox offers a near perfect blend of stability, versatility, performance and good looks on the water. She is a double-paddle boat suitable for camping expeditions or family outings and day trips.

Sailboats - Cruising

Haka 140

Designer

Erik Lerouge

Shoal-draft voyager

Motorboats - Outboard

Tolman Skiff Jumbo

Designer

Renn Tolman

Tolman Skiffs are thoroughly modern, ocean capable, vee bottom stitch and glue plywood boats with a dory ancestry. These skiffs are designed for Alaskan waters and are ideal for sport fishing, beach camping, cruising and general work or recreation.

Oar / Paddle

Norwegian Sailing Pram

Designer

Simon Watts

Simon found an older version of this boat back in the eighties and realized that its thousand-year-old design could be copied and preserved without too much difficulty. He measured it out in ’89 and Bill Nielsen lofted it and drew up the plans in ’91.