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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
Sailboats - Daysailers
Jimmy Skiff
Designer
Chesapeake Light Craft
Before the advent of the outboard motor, rowing/sailing skiffs were common on Chesapeake Bay. They were used for crabbing, fishing, transporting goods, and enjoying summer evenings with a friend.
Sailboats - Racing
Viola 14 Sailing Canoe. Dinghy stability with canoe compactness
Designer
Michael Storer
The idea was a boat that handles like a good racing dinghy, but is much easier to store and transport. Rooftop.
Oar / Paddle
Trixie
Designer
Andrew Walters
“Trixie” began as an idea for a small and simple to build plywood tender, able to get out to a mooring with two or three on board, that was very light, incorporated wheels to enable transport to the slipway, was designed to provide the maximum space from two sheets of 1/4″ plywood, and could be p
Sailboats - Daysailers
BLUEMOTION 550
Designer
Keith Callaghan
BlueMotion is a new 5.5m dayboat (or large dinghy) design for 2013.
Oar / Paddle
Petrel SG (Stitch-and-Glue)
Designer
Nick Schade
Nick Schade’s line of strip-planked Greenland-style sea kayaks are renowned for sophisticated performance on the water, beautiful lines, and sculptural hull details. But strip-planked boatbuilding is not for everyone.
Sailboats - Cruising
Cape Cutter 19
Designer
Dudley Dix
Cape Cutter 19 lapstrake plywood trailer-sailer
Motorboats - Outboard
SILVER 55
Designer
Paolo Lodigiani
The classical hull shape of old wooden runabouts of the 70’s combines perfectly well with the use of marine plywood. This allows SILVER 55 to be in the same time elegant and simple to build.
From the Community
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Classified
Handcrafted Cedar Strip Canoe- 18'
Master craftsman glued 1 “ strips over form, epoxied, varnished this strong but lightweight 50 lb
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