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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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Sailboats - Cruising
ROBERTS 25
Designer
Bruce Roberts-Goodson
Roberts 25 trailerable cruising sailboat you can build in wood epoxy using the plans and full size frame patterns.
Oar / Paddle
Newt
Designer
Warren Jordan
A quickly, easily and inexpensively built solo canoe, that can be built by one person with hand tools in three days. Complete plans and step-by-step instructions. A great family boatbuilding project.
Oar / Paddle
Beaver Canoe
Designer
Iain Oughtred
Construction: Strip planked and glass/epoxy sheathed.
Alternative construction: Cold molded, traditional wood and canvas lapstrake plywood.
No Lofting required.
Plans include 4 sheets.
Sailboats - Cruising
19' Cat Schooner
Designer
William Garden
The latest in Bill Garden’s idea of the perfect kid’s cruising boat. Simple enough to be put together in the garage, salty enough to daydream on, and safe enough as well. She’s quite a handsome double-ender, with a fixed keel. This is an “oh my” boat.Construction: Plywood planking over sawn frame
HEADWATER 14
Designer
Tracy O'Brien
The Headwater Fourteen [H-14] was designed and the prototype built in the Summer of 1985 to test the viability of using frameless, stressed skin construction to build a serviceable Whitewater drift boat.
Oar / Paddle
Stitch & Glue Night Heron
Designer
Nick Schade
Stitch & Glue Night Heron is at home out on the open water and exploring the shores of distant islands.
Sailboats - Racing
Stradivari 2.4 Hc
Designer
Hasse Malmsten
This is my latest design for the Twopointfour metre class. An easy to build lowbudget boat ment to be competetive on the race course.
Motorboats - Inboard
Trawler Yacht 585 AFT CABIN
Designer
Bruce Roberts
BUILD FROM PLANS AND FULL SIZE PATTERNS IN WOOD / EPOXY
Oar / Paddle
Chesapeake LT 16
Designer
Chesapeake Light Craft
The Chesapeake touring kayaks are icons in the sea kayaking world. Built in the thousands in dozens of countries around the world, the Chesapeakes are solid-tracking, comfortable kayaks.
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Arch Davis Jiffy V22 Skiff 2011
Arch Davis Jiffy V22 Skiff 2011. 8'-6 beam, meranti plywood, douglas fir framing, MAS expoxy.
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19' Hylan Big Ben Garvey (2012)
Designed by Doug Hylan and built by Geoff Kerr (Two Daughters Boatworks) in 2012, this particular
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1965 Chris-Craft Constellation — Major Professional Restoration (Partner or New Owner Wanted)
Over the past 20 years, I and a handful of remarkable shipwrights have completed a comprehensive
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Modified Wianno Senior Sailboat, Hull #1, Looking For a Good Home
First ever Wianno Senior (Crosby Boatyard) built - 1914 gaff rig keel boat, 25’ (27’ including bo
