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If you are a designer who offers plans, or kit boats, we invite you to enter your information in the Directory of Boat Plans & Kits. There is no charge! This is for boats of WOOD hull material. And if you’re in the market for a boat to build, this is a fine place to start.

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709 results for All Boat Plans & Kits

Accommodation plan

CAPRICE

Designer: 
Daniel Skira
Skill Level to Build: 
Medium

Caprice is a Mini Offshore Cruiser for two.

Built with double sawn frames and strip plank, this little gaff cutter is designed for long term cruising.

Virginia Park

Virginia Park

Designer: 
Reff Reinhart
Skill Level to Build: 
Intermediate

Virginia Park is an elegant lapstrake launch. Featured in WoodenBoat #234, Sept. – Oct. 2013, Virginia Park is built in the glued lapstrake method with steam bent frames. It features a short forward deck, aft deck with splash well for the...

Tolman Skiff

Tolman Skiff Standard

Designer: 
Renn Tolman
Skill Level to Build: 
beginner-intermediate

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...

Crystal 16

Designer: 
Timm Smith
Skill Level to Build: 
Moderate

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...

Swampscott, JOHN DORY profile

18' Swampscott, JOHN DORY

Designer: 
Iain Oughtred
Skill Level to Build: 
Basic to Intermediate

A refinement of the traditional Swampscott working dory for recreational use.

Plans include nine different rigs.

Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood over sawn frames.

Alternative construction: Traditional dory construction...

Simon Watts sea urchin wooden dinghy plans

Simon Watts Sea Urchin Dinghy

Designer: 
Sam Manning, Bill Nielsen, and Simon Watts
Skill Level to Build: 
Beginner

These handsome, practical row boats were routinely built by Nova Scotia shipwright, Jim Smith in six days, painted and ready for the water.

Simon Watts’ designs for these boats are a great way to get introduced to boatbuilding and rowing....

Adirondack Guide Boat

Adirondack Guide Boat

Designer: 
Nick Schade
Skill Level to Build: 
Intermediate

The Adirondack Guide Boat is known to be a fast and easy rowing boat. While it tends to be tippy, this is a result of what makes it fast, its narrow waterline. The distinct flare gives it strong secondary stability. It was originally developed in...

Westport Skiff

Westport Skiff

Designer: 
Doug Hylan
Skill Level to Build: 
beginner

A simple-to-build 11' skiff, can be built up to 18' long. Originally modeled by Fred Tripp and documented by R. H. Baker.

SILVER 55

SILVER 55

Designer: 
Paolo Lodigiani
Skill Level to Build: 
intermediate

The classical hull shape of old wooden runabouts of the 70’s combines perfectly well with the use of marine plywood. This allows SILVER 55 to be in the same time elegant and simple to build.