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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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Oar / Paddle
15' Alford Sea Kayak, Tursiops
With her 28″ beam, substantial flare, and sweetly shaped ends, she loves rough water. Her plywood hull is one of the prettiest we’ve seen.Construction: Plywood over web frames. Lofting is required.Plans include 4 sheets.
NAVCAT CANAL
A series of Catamaran Houseboats/canal boats has been designed with electric propulsion.
The boats have been designed to meet dimensional restrictions of the french canal waterways, however the design can be easily adapted to other inland waterway requirements.
Oar / Paddle
The Open Boat
This is a design for a basic hull made from one piece of closed cell foam 1m x 4m x 50mm thick.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Strike 18 sailing trimaran
The 18ft STRIKE is a sailing trimaran design that uses a 16ft beach cat as the outriggers/amas and rig. The main hull is plywood and has a dory shape that is extremely easy to build.
Motorboats - Outboard
PF240
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
Sailboats - Racing
START 60
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.
Sailboats - Cruising
28' Sharpie EGRET
Safe, seaworthy, shoal-draft double-ender, with a flat bottom and centerboard. Lofting is required. Plans include 4 sheets.
Sailboats - Cruising
Cape Cutter 19
Cape Cutter 19 lapstrake plywood trailer-sailer
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GERBER ALL-VARNISHED WOODEN SNIPE SAILBOAT 17' 300 lbs
Cedar plank and mahogany boat built in 1950 number 12021.
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Catspaw Dinhgy
Joel White Catspaw Dinghy. LOA 12' 8" Beam 4' 6" Draft 6". Build completed in 2019.
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58 Foot William Garden Heavy Timber Motor Yacht Built 1952
JoAhna K is a 58 foot heavy displacement, double ended William Garden motor yacht built 1952.
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Core Sound Sink Netter style round stern
Core Sound Sink Netter style-round stern, Length 32’, Beam 9’, built 1946 Mildon W Willis Boat Wo