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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
Motorboats - Outboard
Tolman Skiff Jumbo
Designer
Renn Tolman
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.
Marsh Hen
Designer
Doug Hylan
MARSH HEN offers seaworthy and seakindly performance, good speeds with modest horsepower, and handsome looks. Her plywood construction is more accessible to amateur builders.
Sailboats - Racing
PUCK 550 REGATA
Designer
Paolo Lodigiani
PUCK 550 REGATA has been designed with the intention of creating a MICRO CLASS easily and quickly realizable with the stitch and glue method, but able to compete seriously in the class.
Oar / Paddle
16' 6" Resolute
Designer
Steve Killing
Developed in response to requests from heavier and wider paddlers who also wanted a shorter boat, this stable load carrier is excellent for the novice kayaker.
18' 6" Redwing
Designer
Karl Stambaugh
Redwing- a gentle, shoal-draft, low-powered
(5 to 10-hp), sheet-plywood outboard cruiser - can live on her trailer.
Whenever you wish, she'll be ready to go exploring.
Sailboats - Daysailers
18' 8" Mackinaw
Designer
Nelson Zimmer
An open shoal-draft centerboarder suitable for rowing, daysailing, or coastal cruising.
Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames
Alternative construction: Lapstrake, strip, or cold-molded
Lofting is required
Plans include 3 sheets.
Sailboats - Cruising
12' Catspaw Dinghy
Designer
Joel White and N.G. Herreshoff
An open boat that rows with ease and swiftness and is stiff enough under sail to stand up to a breeze.
Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames
Alternative construction: Lapstrake or strip
No lofting is required
Plans include 6 sheets
Sailboats - Cruising
24' 9" Canoe Yawl WENDA
Designer
Albert Strange
A charming, shoal-draft, carvel-planked cruiser for two.Wenda possesses a timeless elegance.She’ll work her magic in the 21st century as she did in the 19th.Construction: Carvel planking over steamed frames.Alternative construction: Cold-molded or lapstrake plywood.Lofting is required.Plans inclu
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New England Classic
Excellent condition and freshly painted, custom 16’ Amesbury Skiff 2003, Oak Frame, lapstrake ced
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Penobscot 13 wooden sailboat
Leave the world behind, at least for a while, on my beautiful Penobscot 13 wooden sailboat.
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