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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.
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749 Results
Motorboats - Inboard
Trawler Yacht 585 AFT CABIN
BUILD FROM PLANS AND FULL SIZE PATTERNS IN WOOD / EPOXY
Motorboats - Outboard
Tolman Skiff Widebody
Tolman Skiffs are thoroughly modern, ocean capable, vee bottom stitch and glue plywood boats with a dory ancestry. These skiffs are designed for Alaskan waters and are ideal for sport fishing, beach camping, cruising and general work or recreation.
Sailboats - Daysailers
23' Double Ended Sloop
Speed, good looks, and comfortable seating were the designer's main criteria for this double-ended centerboard daysailer.
Construction: Cold-molded over strip-planked inner skin.
Alternative construction: Strip, carvel planked (transom stern).
Lofting is required.
Sailboats - Cruising
Didi Cruise-Mini
Didi Cruise-Mini radius chine plywood cruising sailboat
Sailboats - Cruising
Spike Skiff 12' 3"
Please note: this design was formerly known as Pike.
Construction - Glue-lap-plywood flat bottom.
Alternative construction - Traditional plank.
No Lofting required.
Plans include 3 sheets with instructions.
Sail Area - Sprit 60 sq. ft.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Skerry
Our Skerry™ is that rare boat combining excellent rowing and sailing qualities into one attractive craft. Sail when there's wind, row when there's not. You'll cover the miles either way.
Sailboats - Cruising
24' 8" Skipjack, CALICO JACK
A shoal-draft, two-sail bateau from the Chesapeake - comfortable cruising for a couple and a daysailing party.
Construction: Traditional Chesapeake bateau construction.
Lofting is required.
Plans include 7 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
Arctic Hawk
As much functional sculpture as sea kayak, the Arctic Hawk™ could be the most refined stitch-and-glue watercraft anywhere in the world.
Oar / Paddle
microBootlegger
A decked double paddle canoe reminiscent of mahogany runabouts
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From the Community
Classified
Classified
1964 C Lowndes Johnson Comet Day Sailer 16'
Original hull, Cedar on Douglas Fir, in good shape; bronze centerboard; new deck in 2021 - epoxy,
Register of Wooden Boats
Register of Wooden Boats
CADENZA
Cadenza was built in 2003 at Rockport Marine by shipwright John England from a design by L.