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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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Oar / Paddle
Newt
A quickly, easily and inexpensively built solo canoe, that can be built by one person with hand tools in three days. Complete plans and step-by-step instructions. A great family boatbuilding project.
Sailboats - Cruising
SPRITZ
SPRITZ, an essential and simple boat, has been studied and designed to be the ideal boat for novices in boatbuilding or in sailing.
Oar / Paddle
Adirondack Guide Boat
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.
Motorboats - Outboard
18' Plywood Runabout, DOWNEASTER
A deep-V bottomed, open runabout built of plywood over sawn frames.
Construction: Plywood planking over sawn frames
Lofting is required.
Plans include 5 sheets.
Flats Skiff 18
The Flats Stalker is a simple but rugged and easy to pole boat designed for hardcore skinny water sight fishing.
Motorboats - Outboard
Volare Utility
‘Volare’ comes in two versions. This is the utility version, the console version is available as a separate set of plans. They’re both 15′4″ long and 5′ wide.Her length is that of two sheets of 8′ plywood and she’s built in two halves (bow end and stern end).
Zimmer 21' Utility Launch
A fuel-efficient, carvel planked, displacement launch designed to be powered by a 6 to 8-hp diesel.
Comfortable for 2 people cruising or 6-8 people day running.
Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames
Alternative construction: Cold-molded, strip
Sailboats - Racing
Simon Watts International 14
The time of England’s racing dinghies was dominated by Uffa Fox’s boat the “Alarm”. Simon's take on the expert design is a tribute to an age of lightning-quick wooden racing boats.
Motorboats - Outboard
Ben Garveys
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.
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From the Community
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Shaw and Tenney Whitehall, brand new
17' 9" glued lap strake sapele plywood with ribbon Sipo mahogany bright work.
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1947 Quincy Adams 17 -Price reduction to $9,000. Make offer.
Mahogany planked on oiled oak frames. Spruce spars and stainless rigging.
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17' Herreshoff "Colonia" Sailing Dinghy
SUNDANCE II "Colonia" sailing dinghy designed in 1901 by Nathanael G. Herreshoff.
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Pre 1905 Warren Cole Adirondack Guideboat LOA 16′, 42″ beam
Restored in ME by Jonathan Minott (seen in WB "Launchings" July/Aug 2009).