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.
To refine your search, add quote marks. If you search Nutshell Pram Kit, you will get all the listings which include Nutshell, Pram, and Kit. To refine, search “Nutshell Pram Kit” and you’ll see just Nutshell Pram Kit results.
The F1430 is a unique sit-on-top stitch and glue kayak.
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.
Flat-bottomed sailing skiff. Plans options include cross-planked or plywood bottom.
Construction: Cross-planked bottom, lapstrake sides
Alternative constuction: Plywood, glued lapstrake plywood
Lofting is required
Plans include 4 sheets.
20' expedition size, double kayak, accommodates big people with big feet in an efficiently paddled hull.
Strumpet was designed for a very experienced yachtsman. He told us he wanted a boat based on the Scottish fishing trawlers distinctive double-ended hull forms for appearance and seaworthiness.
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.
ZEN is a very simple 10 Foot boat (www.diecipiedi.it) particularly narrow and therefore unstable. It is not the right boat for a beginner but, in the hands of a good helmsman, it may be fast.
The success of the proven Chesapeake™ hull shape led quickly to demands for similar three-person designs. With a 700lbs payload and surprising speed.
Our version of the Optimist Pram, the "Club Racer"
Lightweight hand dolly for moving small boat up to 21' across yard or beach. TRAILEX SUT-300U.
San Francisco Bay birthed 1946 Fellow & Stewart Island Clipper, Nirvana (44 ft LOA, 9 ½ beam,
International Penguin
2008 Bristol Seacraft Penguin
11'5" LOA
33' Friendship Sloop, #64, "Amicitia", LOA 42', designed by John Alden, built by Lash Bros.
