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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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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.
747 Results
Sailboats - Daysailers
14' 5" Biscayne Bay Daysailer
This V-bottomed daysailer can be shallow or deep drafted and is easily sailed.
Construction: Batten-seam planking over steamed frames
Alternative construction: Plywood
Lofting is optional.
Plans include 6 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
Seagull
Simple sheet plywood sports rowing boat, stitch and tape construction. As easy to build as it gets!
Oar / Paddle
17' 0" Freedom
Modern and efficient, the Freedom 17 is a fast responsive tripping canoe that's also easy to build.
Electrical Stock Plans
Attention Amateur and Professional Boat Builders!Bayside Marine Design has stock electrical plans for your boat project. All of the information and schematics you need to wire a new boat or re-wire an existing boat are in the package.
Motorboats - Outboard
SCHIZZO
SCHIZZO is a simple, essential, versatil motorboat, suitable for novice boatbuilders.
Oar / Paddle
9' 6" Nutshell Pram
Glued-lap plywood rowing or sailing tender with plenty of capacity. Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood. No lofting required. Plans include 5 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
Duo
The Duo is a simple to build 3m (10ft) hard chine rowing and sailing dinghy that can be built from just two sheets of 4mm (3/16in) plywood. It is also available as a nesting dinghy, so it can be stored on a cabin roof or even in the back of a car.
Sailboats - Cruising
Half Model Plan SHADOW
Compromise sloop designed by N.G.
Sailboats - Cruising
Deben 4¾-Tonner
Our Deben Class designs are inspired by the original Deben 4-tonner, which my father commissioned from W. M. Blake in 1936 and the Deben 6-tonner, designed by my father in 1950. At least 35 of the 4-tonners and 3 of the 6-tonners were built between 1937 and 1960.
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From the Community
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20' Surf Dory with Electric Motor and Trailer
Fantastic, well cared-for boat built by Lowell’s Boat Shop in 2020—perfect for coastal adventures
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2013 8' Chesapeake Light Craft Cocktail Class Racer
Wood hull built with meticulous and painstaking detail from a kit using a "stich-and-glue" method
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Sailing skiff
12' wooden sailing/rowing skiff. Owner built in 1985 from King and Davis design.