Sailboats - Cruising
18' Catboat
Construction: Carvel planked over sawn & steamed frames. Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip. Lofting is required. Plans include 11 sheets.
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Construction: Carvel planked over sawn & steamed frames. Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip. Lofting is required. Plans include 11 sheets.
Resembling her 8′ cousin more than the sleeker 12′ Acorn, this chunky dinghy will be a good load carrier for her length—and she looks very, very British.Oughtred saves you from guess work by showing precisely how her planking should be lined off.Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood.Alternative c
The i550 is a very popular 18 foot stitch and glue design. Simple construction and avid builder blogs and websites add a sense of community and support for the builder.
Here is another little skiff inspired by a Chesapeake Bay working craft.
This plywood/epoxy construction 24 ft motor boat was designed specially for amateurs boat builders.Plans are available in metric and includes construction drawings and full size patterns CAD files.All CNC files are optimized to use standard plywood sheets of 2400 x 1200 mm and every panel have a
Roberts 19 Trailerable gunkholing and coastal cruiser. Plans and full size frame patterns available for wood epoxy construction.
Our Talon Series boats are designed to handle good seas with speed and comfort. We use a 30 degree dead rise found on production speed boats to make a soft ride.
Start Building ... Get Floating!!
Chesapeake Light Craft’s Eastport Nesting Pram shares its hull with the popular stock Eastport Pram dinghy, a champion 7′9″ yacht tender that can carry a decent load, rows and tows with ease, and sails beautifully.
This boat is a larger version of my popular POINT COMFORT 18, a traditional Chesapeake Bay workboat type reinterpreted for simpler and more modern construction.
Lapstrake-plywood daysailer with a shapely wineglass transom, unstayed sprit rig, and wide, flat, keels for easy trailering.
Construction: Lapstrake plywood planking over steam-bent frames.
Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip.
No lofting is required.
Nautilus is one of the best surviving examples of Ben Seaborn's design and the Blanchard Yard's c