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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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Motorboats - Inboard
Passagemaker Lite 39
A flush decked single engine ocean cruiser for round bottom sheathed strip or multi-chine aluminum construction.
Sailboats - Racing
HADRON singlehander racing dinghy
HADRON is a new dinghy design for 2011.
Sailboats - Cruising
FULL MOON 27
Based on Tom Gillmer and Iver Franzen’s New Moon (an enlargement on Gillmer’s Blue Moon), this sailing vessel is intended to be a stout, seaworthy, offshore-capable passagemaker, with an emphasis on the balance between comfortable sea-keeping and good sailing abilities.
Sailboats - Cruising
32' MYSTIC Sharpie Ketch
This 32′ double-ended sharpie ketch will provide the amateur builder with a shoal-draft cruising boat of simple construction.
Construction: Plywood planking over sawn frames.
Lofting is required.
Plans include 4 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
7' 7" Nutshell Pram
Glued-lap plywood rowing or sailing tender with plenty of capacity.
Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood.
No lofting required.
Plans include 8 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
Sasquatch 14-30
A stitch and glue touring canoe design 14' x 30" [4.3 m x .76 m]
Oar / Paddle
Pinguino 145 Wooden Kayak Kit
Stable, comfortable, and well-mannered, the Pinguino is great for fishing, bird watching and photography. She is the perfect kayak for messing about in mild rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands, and coast.
Oar / Paddle
Kiska
Kiska is a wood strip/epoxy single kayak. Based on Greenland kayak lines, this low volume kayak is playful but tracks well
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13' Peapod
12'10" edge glued (no frames) light weight Peapod. Sweet skiff that always gets comments.
Classified
Catspaw Dinghy strip Plank Versian
Deja Vu is an adaptation of the original Catspaw Dinghy carvel plank design to strip plank constr
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John Welsford Seagull Dory
Custom Builder. Length 15' 3",; beam 4' 1", weight 93#. Marine grade Okoume plywood.