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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.
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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Flats Skiff 18
The Flats Stalker is a simple but rugged and easy to pole boat designed for hardcore skinny water sight fishing.
PuddleCat Adventure
Catamaran, 13 foot by 6+ foot wide. Wooden design using 1/4 ply and fiberglass covered. Single sailing Rig or optional Bi plane rig. Optional Cabin.
Oar / Paddle
TWEAK
Here is a small dinghy which can be used for fishing, pleasure rowing or as a tender of a bigger boat. TWEAK was born by tweaking the popular D4/D5 dinghy.
Sailboats - Racing
ACYD MINI
October 8th, 1977, twenty-four “21 feet sailing boats” single handed left Penzance (United Kingdom) for Antigua with a stopover in Tenerife.The smallest offshore racing boats were born and so was favourite race: the Mini Transat.
Sailboats - Cruising
JUNIOR
JUNIOR, designed to compete in Diecipiedi (10 Foot) Class (www.diecipiedi.it), is norrower and therefore less stable than other boats but it is one of the fastest monohulls of the class.
Motorboats - Outboard
Tolman Skiff Widebody
Tolman Skiffs are thoroughly modern, ocean capable, vee bottom stitch and glue plywood boats with a dory ancestry. These skiffs are designed for Alaskan waters and are ideal for sport fishing, beach camping, cruising and general work or recreation.
Sailboats - Cruising
Half Model Plan NYMPH
Keel/centerboard cutter designed by Edward Burgess in 1888 and first of his “Compromise 40-footers”.The plans produce a model that is 25″ long.You’ll receive 4 pages of plans historical information about the boat and step-by-step instructions for half-hull building,using the lift method.There are
Sailboats - Cruising
Wittholz 35' Departure Class
An oceangoing V-bottomed auxiliary with accommodations for four to six people.
Construction: Carvel planked over sawn frames.
Alternative construction: Plywood (plans included).
Lofting is required.
Plans include 15 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
8 ft Dinghy
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.
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From the Community
Classified
Classified
Solar Electric Trailerable Catamaran
Length: 18 feet, Beam: 8.25 feet, draft: about 1 foot.
Classified
John Marples design and built 21' folding trimaran
21’ long, 16’ beam (reduces to 8'5" for trailering), strip plank construction, 850lbs with all ge
Boat Launchings
Boat Launchings
PT 11
I built this PT 11 nesting dinghy from the CLC kit over this past winter, to replace a 9'6" Nutsh