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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.
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Motorboats - Outboard
Talon 16' by Anders Boats
Designer
Tim Anders
This 16 Talon is designed to give you more boat for less dollars! You will smile zooming over choppy waters with its smooth riding hull.
Gypsy
Designer
Woods Designs
The GYPSY 28 was the Woods Designs’ own cruising boat for five very successful years. It was designed as an easy-to-build budget ocean cruiser and many are now sailing in all corners of the world.
Oar / Paddle
Thomson 11' Skiff
Designer
Asa Thomson
Flat-bottomed rowing skiff elegant enough for a yacht tender.
Construction: Cross-planked bottom, lapstrake sides
No lofting is required
Plans include 1 sheet.
Sailboats - Cruising
Sea Bright 36
Designer
Reuel B. Parker
SEA BRIGHT 36L.B.P.: 36′BEAM: 10′ 11″DRAFT: 1′ 8″/4′ 7″DISPLACEMENT: 9,500 lbsBALLAST: 3,483 lbs, 2,000 lbs lead foil laminated in keel; 250 lbs trim; 633 lbs water; 600 lbs fuelWATER: 75 gallonsFUEL: 80 gallonsRIG: Gaff-rigged Cat SchoonerTYPE: New Jersey Sea Bright Skiff.
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
18' Swampscott, JOHN DORY
Designer
Iain Oughtred
A refinement of the traditional Swampscott working dory for recreational use.
Plans include nine different rigs.
Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood over sawn frames.
Alternative construction: Traditional dory construction.
No lofting required.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Janette
Designer
John Welsford
Harbor Woodworks offers custom kits and boats, tailored to your specifications and level of completion. We ship to the U.S.
Oar / Paddle
TWEAK
Designer
Alex Bogdanov
Here is a small dinghy which can be used for fishing, pleasure rowing or as a tender of a bigger boat. TWEAK was born by tweaking the popular D4/D5 dinghy.
From the Community
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Cocktail Class Racers
Two matching 8' fiberglassed okume plywood boats with 6 and 8-hp motors carried on one trail
Classified
Yankee One Classic Wooden Racing Sloop Sailboat 30'
Award winning, designed by William Starling Burgess/Stone built.
Classified
"Piccolo" 12' 8" Sailing Canoe and Model
Piccolo model professionally built by George Bullitt.
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