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Plans & Kits
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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Sailboats - Cruising
Simplicity 35
A 35' centerboard cruising boat designed for long-distance cruising and living aboard. Simplicity’s raised deck and 11’ beam result in a spacious interior, with standing headroom throughout. Construction is plywood over plywood bulkheads and frames.
Sailboats - Cruising
19' Cat Schooner
The latest in Bill Garden’s idea of the perfect kid’s cruising boat. Simple enough to be put together in the garage, salty enough to daydream on, and safe enough as well. She’s quite a handsome double-ender, with a fixed keel. This is an “oh my” boat.Construction: Plywood planking over sawn frame
Motorboats - Inboard
Stella Rose 6.5′ Flat-Bottom
Build Your Own Mini Electric Wooden Boat – Perfect for Intermediate-Level DIYers and Boat Enthusiasts
Check out detailed product demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEY7kIRA39c
Oar / Paddle
Sea Island Sport
The Sea Island Sport is CLC’s response to hundreds of requests for an attractive stitch-and-glue sit-on-top kayak. Credit for the design goes to Nick Schade.
Sailboats - Cruising
12' 10" Pooduck Skiff
This dinghy could be considered a big little boat.
She has a lot of excellent qualities: excellent rowing and sailing ability, easy construction, and mannerly towing habits.
Construction: Glued-lapstrake plywood.
Alternative Construction: Traditional lapstrake.
Sailboats - Cruising
ROBERTS 470
ROBERTS 470 - WOOD EPOXY
The accommodation of this design has been laid out to suit two couples. The Roberts 470 makes a fine long distance cruising yacht.
Sailboats - Cruising
SCHEGGIA
SCHEGGIA (designed to compete in 10 Foot Class – www.diecipiedi.it) is narrow at waterline which makes it fast. Thanks to its flare sides stability increases considerably when the boat starts to hee
Motorboats - Outboard
Capriccio 21
In designing Capriccio we have been inspired by the aesthetics of the classic sport runabouts of the Thirties, which had the pilot seat in the extreme aft-wards of the boat and a powerful engine under a long deck in front of them.
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From the Community
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CLC Southwester Dory
Chesapeake Light craft Southwest Dory for Sale. Built from a kit in 2020.
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32' 1945 Mt Desert Downeaster
32’ 1945 Mt Desert Downeaster, 318 gas engine that runs, has been on the hard for 10yrs +/-, she
Boat Launchings
Boat Launchings
James Lawley Yacht Tender
This boat was built from plans purchased from the museum at Mystic Conneticut. I named it JOYCE.