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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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747 Results
Oar / Paddle
Sail Kit for kayaks
The Sail kit allows you to transform the canoes NINFA, NAIADE and ONDINA, in small sailing trimarans for coastal cruising with minimal efforts.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Swifty 12
The Swifty 12 is the most popular boat in the Shell Boats fleet, with several hundred built from our kits and plans. Docile and easily handled, the Swifty will plane on a reach in a good breeze, but you will have to work very hard to get it to capsize.
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
The Tandem Ashes Day
A Light and Elegant Tandem for Day Paddlers and Light Overnighters. Easily driven, with moderate rocker and good initial stability.
The Ashes Tandem Day is quick to come up to speed, she’s maneuverable, and she’s beautiful.
Sailboats - Cruising
Spray 52
Spray 52 is available as a Wood / Epoxy plan and full size frame patterns.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Footloose
Footloose combinines the traditional lines and salty looks of the classic flatty skiff, with the ease of building and seamless integrity of plywood construction for unclomplicated boating.
Oar / Paddle
Orca 21
A serious extended expedition touring kayak, double or triple, designed to carry a large load safely and with ample stability.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Shellback Sailing Kit
Our pre-cut kits are cut by computer-guided routers to provide you with accurate parts. And, the kits come with just about everything needed except the elbow grease.The ladder frame—the “foundation” of the boat—is now included with the kit.
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From the Community
Register of Wooden Boats
Register of Wooden Boats
MORNING SONG
MORNING SONG is a Lyle Hess Falmouth Cutter built over a 25 year period and launched new in 2016
Classified
Classified
New Adirondack Guide Boat for Sale
Newfound Adirondack Guide Boat - New 16' 2" long, 36.75" beam with (2) 8' Shaw & Tenney oars.