Plans & Kits

Roberts 246  

The recent America’s Cup has proven what is the potential of fast acceleration with a trimaran hull “piercing bow,” that is designed to penetrate the wave and not to float on the waves. Beyond the result the difference in behavior between Oracle and Alinghi was bright watching the races.

Michael P. Smith, Commander, United States Navy (retired) designed and built boats all of his life, from boats on the Clinton River in Michigan to prams and skiffs on Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

A decked double paddle canoe reminiscent of mahogany runabouts

The Rice Lake Skiff is sure to be a very useful boat at the cottage for fishing, rowing or just knocking about.

This gozzo is a modern version of a traditional Italian small fishing boat: built as an open boat and without having performance as a priority in mind, it is easy to row, seaworthy and pleasant to use

Small enough to load on top of a car, but large enough to seat two adults...

VILA 570 is the smallest of a family of three small planing cruisers boats ranging from 19’ to 22’.

IRC short handed racer

This is a simple 8ft stitch and glue sail/row pram. It requires only 3 sheets of marine plywood and should be very fast, easy, and inexpensive to build. It should end up just over 80lb so easy to transport as well.