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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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Oar / Paddle

Chesapeake Sea Kayak

Designer

Chris Kulczycki

17'
Plan #400-141

Oar / Paddle

Chesapeake Double

Designer

Chesapeake Light Craft

The success of the proven Chesapeake™ hull shape led quickly to demands for similar tandem and three-person designs. The Chesapeake Double™ and Triple™ are high-volume touring boats, with a 700lb payload that belies their surprising speed.

Oar / Paddle

Sectional Canoe

Designer

Young S Chung

You can enjoy paddling easier and funnier with less budget because it’s made of plywood, sectional and you can build one in a week.

Motorboats - Outboard

Switzer Bullet 136

Designer

Switzer-Craft - Classic Wooden Boat Plans

Our best seller the 13 1/2 foot Bullet by Switzer. Iconic lines, the Bullet was a marathon and record breaker in its time.

Crystal 16

Designer

Timm Smith

The Crystal 16 was designed to be a simple, lightweight flats skiff. Her hull is a simple V-bottom with a bit of flare in her topsides. Her deck features a large casting platform forward with two smaller platforms back aft on both sides. Storage is available up forward below the casting deck.

Sailboats - Cruising

Half Model Plan WAVE

Designer

Cornelius Gorman

Wide, shallow racing sloop designed by Cornelius Gorman in 1878.

Oar / Paddle

Petrel SG (Stitch-and-Glue)

Designer

Nick Schade

Nick Schade’s line of strip-planked Greenland-style sea kayaks are renowned for sophisticated performance on the water, beautiful lines, and sculptural hull details. But strip-planked boatbuilding is not for everyone.

Motorboats - Outboard

Ben Garveys

Designer

Doug Hylan

BEN GARVEYS - Ben 15' 9", Big Ben 19'
Fine boatyard skiffs or small harbor ferries.
A pair of boats that will feel right at home on the working waterfront.

Oar / Paddle

Trixie

Designer

Andrew Walters

“Trixie” began as an idea for a small and simple to build plywood tender, able to get out to a mooring with two or three on board, that was very light, incorporated wheels to enable transport to the slipway, was designed to provide the maximum space from two sheets of 1/4″ plywood, and could be p