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.
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.
Modern and efficient, the Freedom 17 is a fast responsive tripping canoe that's also easy to build.
Shallow-draft, V-bottomed pocket cruiser with spartan accommodations for two.
Construction: Carvel planked over sawn frames
Alternative construction: Strip or plywood
Lofting is required.
Plans include 5 sheets.
The GulfStream 28 is a moderate vee, relatively narrow boat (beam/length ratio of 3.4) designed to satisfy a program in which economy and seaworthiness were top priorities.
Rifleman was intended as an economical planing hulled speedboat suited for coastal inshore fishing.
She is built of plywood and is intended for 15/20 hp outboard motors.
High performance beach cat which is striking to look at and exciting to sail. Well-detailed plans of simple and rugged stitch-and-glue plywood hulls.
Construction: Stitch-and-glue plywood over bulkhead frames.
No lofting is required.
Plans include 2 sheets.
My client wanted to circumnavigate, Cape Horn and all! He wished to build the boat himself and had limited skills in boatbuilding, limits on his budget, and a space about the size of a double garage.
The recent America’s Cup has proven what is the potential of fast acceleration with a trimaran hull “piercing bow,” that is designed to penetrate the wave and not to float on the waves. Beyond the result the difference in behavior between Oracle and Alinghi was bright watching the races.
As featured in WoodenBoat issue #274, the Tombolo 28 is an iconic modern classic outboard-powered cruiser. The mission of the design dictates a maximum length under 30′ and a trailerable beam.
Flavio Faloci’s Presto Footy is a gaff-sloop with solid wood hull made of balsa for easy carving/shaping and light weight.
Believe to be second hull built to the design after the Hiscock’s first circumnavigation, launche
1938 Hinkley Islander Sparkman & Stephen’s design.
Custom built cruising sailboat constructed with a 1 1/8″ thick spruce, edge nailed, strip-planked
A kit boat from Russell Brown’s Port Townsend Watercraft, designed by Bieker Boats.
