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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.
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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.
Sailboats - Racing
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The project, despite its small size, develops a discrete internal volume allowing to nr. 4 crew members to spend short cruises with good speed and pleasant navigation.The hull lines and the deck are to corner for simplicity of construction, and are harmonized with the hull volume.
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17' 0" Endeavour
The sharply raked stem and well shaped forward sections will provide increasing buoyancy as the Endeavour punches into large waves.
Oar / Paddle
Backsplash
Backsplash = backpack kayak.
Combine hiking and paddling
Go to fishing on remote lakes,
Build when storage space is limited.
Living on city? – take a boat on your back and walk to shore to for paddling?
Oar / Paddle
RoofRack
A small and very simple tender to fit inside a station wagon or on a roofrack, this little plywood dink will suit some one wanting a tender for their small yacht or motorboat.
Oar / Paddle
Chesapeake Double
The success of the proven Chesapeake™ hull shape led quickly to demands for similar tandem and three-person designs. The Chesapeake Double™ and Triple™ are high-volume touring boats, with a 700lb payload that belies their surprising speed.
Sailboats - Cruising
Sandy
Sandy is a husky centerboard cutter designed for extended coastal cruising in such areas as the east coasts of the U.S. or Australia, the Pacific Northwest, or Europe.
Sailboats - Cruising
15' 8 OUGHTRED Stickleback Dory (Amberjack)
Good dories have a reputation for being difficult to design but easy to build. Iain Oughtred has taken care of the hard work here-you can’t go wrong with his detailed plans for this lapstrake (plywood) Swampscott derivative.Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood over sawn frames.Alternative constr
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24' Peter van Dine Tancook Whaler
One of a couple dozen built in the 1970’s. Featured in Fourth Book of Good Boats.
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2021 Lapstrake Dory/Skiff. 12' 6"
Lapstrake dory/skiff built by the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine in 2021 as a class project
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Solar Electric Trailerable Catamaran
Length: 18 feet, Beam: 8.25 feet, draft: about 1 foot.