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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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Sailboats - Daysailers
Meghan Sailing Skiff
Meghan has a constant deadrise V-bottom hull with a capacity of 1-2 passengers and features for & aft flotation chambers. Her rig consists of a 16ft free standing mast, 9′5″ wishbone boom and 65 square ft sail.
Motorboats - Outboard
21' Pretty Marsh Runabout
21′ 2″ Inboard/outboard runabout, built of marine plywood.Several design options include center console, outboard as well as inboard/outboard.And, configurations also include different heights for the windshield.Construction: Plywood.Lofting is required.Plans include 5 sheets.
Kitty Hawk 26
The Kitty Hawk 26 is a cold-molded, Carolina Style center console. Powered by a single four stroke outboard, she will be an economical offshore fishing boat.
Sailboats - Cruising
Explorer
A boat to take you to all the shallow water places that most sailors never see up close (deep water places too). At only 95 lbs it is easily car topped or trailered and can even be launched from many places without a ramp.
Oar / Paddle
7' 10" OUGHTRED Acorn Dinghy (Auk)
Shorter but more burdensome than our popular 12′ Acorn, this little gem will be slower but more versitile.Her glued-lapstrake hull can be planked up from unscarfed 8″ plywood sheets.Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood.Alternative construction: Traditional lapstrake.No lofting required.Plans inc
Oar / Paddle
Mystic River Tandem
Traditional Wood Strip CanoeThe Mystic River is a tidal estuary in southeast Connecticut. Starting in Old Mystic it runs through the pretty seaport town of Mystic, home to the Mystic Seaport Museum, out to Fishers Island Sound.
Sailboats - Racing
Simon Watts International 14
The time of England’s racing dinghies was dominated by Uffa Fox’s boat the “Alarm”. Simon's take on the expert design is a tribute to an age of lightning-quick wooden racing boats.
Sailboats - Daysailers
16' Melonseed Skiff
Lapstrake-plywood daysailer with a shapely wineglass transom, unstayed sprit rig, and wide, flat, keels for easy trailering.
Construction: Lapstrake plywood planking over steam bent frames.
Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip.
No lofting is required.
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1938 65' Chesapeake Bay Buyboat "Choptank"
This vessel is a 65' custom-design, custom-build Chesapeake Bay Oyster buyboat.
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14' Oyster Sharpie - Howard Chapelle design
A classic boat built by the East End Classic Boat Society in Amagansett, NY in 2014.
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1934 Dodge Special Utility
This stunning 16' mahogany inboard runabout is model 202, the “Special Utility Boat.” Built in 19