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MAC 75 wa

Designer

ACDesign

The MAC 75 wa is a fast fishing boat easy to build.

Sailboats - Daysailers

KIS 4.7

Designer

Paolo Lodigiani

We designed KIS dinghies in order to meet a very practical need of amateur boatbuilders.

Motorboats - Outboard

Bowler

Designer

Doug Hylan

Thank you for considering my plans for BOWLER, a “cruising” version of my TOP HAT launch. These boats are descended from Harry Bryan’s inspired Handy Billy design, which in turn can trace it’s origins back to William Hand's vee bottom designs from the early 20th century.

Diana

Designer

Doug Hylan

Inspired by the reconstruction of a 1950's boat.

Motorboats - Outboard

Sportfish 570

Designer

Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa

The design of Sportfish 570 comes from a collaboration with a Senegalese society, with the aim of creating fishing vessels for inland waters of modern conception.

Sailboats - Daysailers

18' 8" Mackinaw

Designer

Nelson Zimmer

An open shoal-draft centerboarder suitable for rowing, daysailing, or coastal cruising.

Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames

Alternative construction: Lapstrake, strip, or cold-molded

Lofting is required

Plans include 3 sheets.

Motorboats - Outboard

Boat BW

Designer

Bill Walker

The Boat BW is a trailerable plywood stitch-and-glue skiff. The outboard-powered modified-vee hull with lifting strakes provides an efficient hull that rises on to plane with little-to-no porpoising. The below-deck bulkheaded and sealed compartments provide superb secondary flotation.

Sailboats - Cruising

20' 3" Sloop LITTLE GULL

Designer

Winthrop Warner

Round-bottomed pocket cruiser with room for an inboard auxiliary and accommodations for two.

Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames.

Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip

Lofting is required.

Plans include 11 sheets.

Oar / Paddle

Breeze

Designer

Alex Bogdanov

“Breeze” is a 10′ (3m) double paddle canoe. Two sheets of plywood needed. Stitch and glue construction using 3″(75mm) fiberglass tape in epoxy for all seams inside and out. The deciding factors when designing the boat were mostly the same as with all my designs - seaworthiness and lightweight.