Sailboats - Cruising
Fafnir
Miniature voyaging and cruising yacht for amateur boatbuilders, can carry two, capable of short blue water voyages.
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Miniature voyaging and cruising yacht for amateur boatbuilders, can carry two, capable of short blue water voyages.
Tom Cat is a shoal draft catboat of plank-on-frame construction, but strip construction would do as well.
Lofting is required.
Sail area is 120 sq. ft.
Plan includes 9 sheets.
Like many traditional canoes, the Sassafras 16 is symmetrical, bow and stern. This allows a solo paddler to sit facing backwards on the forward seat for better trim. An elegant lapstrake canoe for two
10′ x 3′8″ Double Ender Dinghy.Designed for paddling, rowing or sailing and for construction in laminated wood or fiberglass.Able to carry on car top as canoe or on boat deck as yacht tender.Seats three and has two rowing stations.Uses two removable leeboards and rudder-tiller combination for sai
The F1830 is the newest BYD design and the tandem version of the F1430 Sit On Top kayak. It is a second generation boat, with an optimized hull and simplified kit. This boat will easily carry 2 adults and a big cooler, or 2 adults and a couple of small kids.
Classic sport fishing boat in the style of the Abaco boats. A classic, smooth riding, variable deadrise hull finishing with 17 degrees deadrise at the transom.
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.
28′ LOA carvel-planked daysailer with small cuddy. Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames. Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip. Lofting is required. Plans include 4 sheets.
The Lobster Boat 26 (LB26) is a plan for amateur builders like no other!
Here is another little skiff inspired by a Chesapeake Bay working craft.
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Design originally published in The Rudder, Volume XXXI, Nov-Dec 1915