Plans & Kits

A 14' Classic Style Runabout

The Oxford Shell™ is a swift, smooth running "recreational" shell suitable for all skill levels. Whether you're just learning how to row a sliding seat shell, or you're a seasoned expert.

The Sapphire 27 is developed from our very successful Design No. 056, to give a more traditional cruising oriented layout both down below and on deck.

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.

Safe, seaworthy, shoal-draft double-ender, with a flat bottom and centerboard. Lofting is required. Plans include 4 sheets.

Elegant, high-performance, sliding-seat pulling boat designed to mitigate the speed-robbing pitching associated with some sliding-seat craft.
Construction: Lapstrake planked over steamed frames.
Alternative construction: Cold-molded, strip or glued lapstrake.

The performance choice for fitness rowing

This plywood/epoxy construction 24 ft motor boat was designed specially for amateurs boat builders.Plans are available in metric and includes construction drawings and full size patterns CAD files.All CNC files are optimized to use standard plywood sheets of 2400 x 1200 mm and every panel have a

Beamy yet fine-lined rowing/sailing boat designed for lightweight construction.

Construction: Cold-molded.

Lofting is optional.

Plans include 5 sheets.

Simon found an older version of this boat back in the eighties and realized that its thousand-year-old design could be copied and preserved without too much difficulty. He measured it out in ’89 and Bill Nielsen lofted it and drew up the plans in ’91.