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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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Lobster Boat 26
The Lobster Boat 26 (LB26) is a plan for amateur builders like no other!
Motorboats - Outboard
Jericho Bay Lobster Skiff
Designed by Joel White, the original boat was built plank-on-frame by Jimmy Steele (of Peapod fame), but no plans were ever drawn-until now.
Sailboats - Racing
Optimist Club Racer
Our version of the Optimist Pram, the "Club Racer"
Oar / Paddle
Eastport Nesting Pram
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.
Oar / Paddle
Hyak
Hyak is a single kayak designed for multi-day excursions and recreational racing.
Sailboats - Daysailers
20' 3" Flatfish Class Sloop
A handsome daysailer based on the Herreshoff Fish Class, but with a centerboard conversion similar to that of the Haven 12 1/2.
Construction: Carvel planked over steam-bent frames.
Lofting is required.
Plans include 6 sheets.
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.
Sailboats - Cruising
Pathfinder
Pathfinder is a big, classic, stable daysailer with space on board to set out two airbeds and sleeping bags on a flat floor, designed for home boatbuilders she is an exceptional performer under sail.
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.
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From the Community
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Cocktail Class Racers
Two matching 8' fiberglassed okume plywood boats with 6 and 8-hp motors carried on one trail
Classified
Yankee One Classic Wooden Racing Sloop Sailboat 30'
Award winning, designed by William Starling Burgess/Stone built.
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"Piccolo" 12' 8" Sailing Canoe and Model
Piccolo model professionally built by George Bullitt.