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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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747 Results
Oar / Paddle
Seagull
Simple sheet plywood sports rowing boat, stitch and tape construction. As easy to build as it gets!
Sailboats - Cruising
32' MYSTIC Sharpie Ketch
This 32′ double-ended sharpie ketch will provide the amateur builder with a shoal-draft cruising boat of simple construction.
Construction: Plywood planking over sawn frames.
Lofting is required.
Plans include 4 sheets.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Meghan Sailing Skiff
Meghan has a constant deadrise V-bottom hull with a capacity of 1-2 passengers and features for & aft flotation chambers. Her rig consists of a 16ft free standing mast, 9′5″ wishbone boom and 65 square ft sail.
Oar / Paddle
16' 0" Champlain
The Champlain is a good traditional style general purpose recreational canoe.
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 - Cruising
Half Model Plan MINERVA
Cutter designed by William Fife Jr., in 1888.The plans produce a model that is 28″ in length.You’ll receive 3 pages of plans historical information about the boat, step-by-step instructions and full-sized patterns for each lift, as well as template for you to shape the profile.
Motorboats - Outboard
Kastri
In the spring of 2013, I started to write a book called, How to Design a Boat using SketchUp 3D Software. The subject matter was my design, ‘Kalostyn’.
Oar / Paddle
Shearwater 14 Hybrid
The Shearwater Hybrid combines the best qualities of stitch-and-glue plywood kayaks with the beauty of a cedar strip deck.
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From the Community
Classified
Classified
Sailing skiff
12' wooden sailing/rowing skiff. Owner built in 1985 from King and Davis design.
Classified
Classic wooden twin diesel cruiser
Class Act
1946 Deering Express Cruiser – Class Act
Asking Price $40,000
Classified
WANTED - Boatbuilding Lumber
WANTED - Boatbuilding Lumber
Register of Wooden Boats
Register of Wooden Boats
MORNING SONG
MORNING SONG is the sistership to Lin and Larry Pardey's TALEISIN and was meticulously built by K