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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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Baby Tender

Designer

Warren Jordan

The Cradle Boat Baby Tender, for the newborn sailor.

Sailboats - Racing

Didi 23

Designer

Dudley Dix

Didi 23 radius chine plywood trailer-sailer

Oar / Paddle

20' 6" Reliance

Designer

Steve Killing

This boat has a comfortable feel to it and a stability that makes kayaking in any weather comfortable.

Sirene du Saloum

Designer

Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa

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.

Motorboats - Outboard

Sportfish 570

Designer

Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa

The design of Sportfish 570 comes from a collaboration with a Senegalese society, with the aim of creating fishing vessels for inland waters of modern conception.

L20 Trimaran

Designer

Lorenzo B. Acompañado II

A modern iteration of Philippine double outrigger canoe. Adapting to present-day construction method, the wooden facetted hull still has the silhouette of the Austronesian “Bangka”.

Motorboats - Outboard

Boat BW

Designer

Bill Walker

The Boat BW is a trailerable plywood stitch-and-glue skiff. The outboard-powered modified-vee hull with lifting strakes provides an efficient hull that rises on to plane with little-to-no porpoising. The below-deck bulkheaded and sealed compartments provide superb secondary flotation.

Sailboats - Daysailers

Swifty 12

Designer

Fred Shell

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.