Open Sailboats 14' up

Youkou-Lili

Sail and oar boat inspired from both the Norwegian oselvar and the Swampscott dory For Youkou-Lili study plans, click HERE Hull length / waterline 5.70 / 4.57 m   Sail area 10 to 10.6 m²   Breadth / waterline 1.56 / 1...

Seil 18

Pram type large sail and oar boat Click HERE for Seil 18 study plans Hull length / waterline 5.50 / 4.20 m Sail area 11 m² Breadth / waterline 1.64 / 1.23 m Outboard motor 5 hp Draught 0.20 / 0.90 m Design category / Crew C4 /...

Morbic 11

11′ classic sail and oar dinghy For Morbic 11 study plans, click HERE Hull length / waterline    3.35 / 3.18 m Sail area   6.5 m² Breadth / waterline    1.52 / 1.25 m Design category / Crew  ...

Lilou 2

Friendly daysailer, easy to build For Lilou 2 Study Plans, click HERE Hull length / waterline 5.10 / 4.60 m Sail area (sloop) 17 m² Breadth / waterline 1.92 / 1.54 m Outboard motor 5 hp Draugth 0.45 / 1.00 m Design category /...

Kernic

A sail & oar dinghy for team crew Click HERE for Kernic study plans Hull length / waterline   5.70 / 5.30 m Sail area    15 m² Breadth / waterline   1.80 / 1.34 m Outboard motor    6...

Ilur "clinker kit"

The most popular sail and oar boat For a digital Study Plan for Ilur, click HERE Hull length / waterline 4.44/ 4.10 m Sail area 12.2 m² Breadth / waterline 1.70 / 1.46 m Outboard motor 4 hp Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m Design category /...

Aber

Sail and oar dinghy, a very classic and pure line For Aber study plans click HERE Hull length / waterline 4.30 / 4.00 m Sail area 9.7 m² Breadth / waterline 1.48 / 1.30 m Outboard motor 3.5 hp Draught 0.25 / 0.85 m Design category /...

Walkabout Plans Digital Download

A study plan download for Walkabout is available HERE For full Walkabout Printed Plans, click HERE "Walkabout" as in "He's gone Walkabout" an Australian term meaning "a journey undertaken without notice or warning, of no fixed duration, with no...

Long Steps Printed Plans

Long Steps For Long Steps Study Plan PDF, click HERE For Long Steps Plans Digital Download, click HERE LOA 19'6" Beam 5'7" Draft 3'8"/8" Water ballast 265 lb Sail Area 136 sq ft Max load 1056 lb   I think that I’ve mentioned before, that in my...

12' 3" Plover Double Ended Swampscott/Surf Dory

This design is based on a double ended version of our 12' 4" Petite Brise Swampscott dinghy. Swampscotts as a breed usually have a narrow 'tombstone' transom making them more or less double ended (semi Swampscott dorys have a wider transom) - when...

18' Elaine II Open Dayboat

Fred Rebell (1886-1968) was a lone sailor and adventurer - he fled from Latvia to Germany to avoid conscription, stowed away on a Sydney-bound ship and after marrying/divorcing and working in Australia, tried to emigrate to the US but was refused a visa...

West Mersea Duck Punt PDF Free Plans

A recent letter from Rusty Knorr: How does one get boat plans onto the Duckworks website? I was thinking that since John Milgate has passed away, and before passing gave permission for his “West Mersea Duckpunt” plans to be freely...

Libra 17 (CNC Files)

These cutting files and assembly instructions are from Mauro Petrini, a naval architect with 15 years of experience. He has developed the Libra 17 construction drawing set to be built in plywood.   This includes: -CNC plywood cutting file. -CNC...

6 Meter Whaler Printed Plans

For 6 Meter Whaler Study Plans, click HERE For 6 Meter Whaler Digital Plans Click HERE ---- I had been talking to a customer at Boat Books where I worked about the problems of the world and what we could do to set things right, all the usual gripes about...

23'5" East Cornish Lugger Plans

This craft takes it's heritage from quite a number of traditional fishing craft used around the South West and French coasts for pilchard and mackerel driving. These boats had quite a number of subtle variations on the lug rig and in this case we have...

17'3" Kon Bot Puck Plans

Not much has been written in the West about the traditional working craft of the East European countries but they had some fine craft and this is just one example of them. The KON was one of the smaller types of boat working on the Baltic around the Bay...

Calm Harbor 12 Strip Planked Daysailer Plans

Based on our Safe Harbour design which was based on the Dark Harbor 12 designed by B.B. Crowninshield in the early part of the 20th Century, this design has been made beamier so that she can carry less ballast and use a steel centreplate.   She...

Ebihen 18

Seaworthy and trailer-able traditional cutter, 5.5 m long For Ebihen 18 Study Plans, click  HERE Hull length / waterline 5.50 / 4.94 m   Sail area 25 m²   Breadth / waterline 2.10 / 1.90 m   Outboard motor 8...

18'4" Jim Canoe Yawl

Since designing Lillie, we have had several enquiries for new canoe yawl designs. I think that this is partly due to their obvious elegance in shape and function. They are beautiful craft and represent a very personal form of sailing. The journeys of...

30' Cornish Motor Gig

Based on the traditional Cornish Pilot Gig this updated version has had it's beam increased from the usual 5' (1.525m) to 6'9" (2.05m) to accommodate an inboard diesel engine and a bigger rig. These gigs were used for general service, salvage and...

18' Bittern Daysailer

The Bittern design started life when our client bought an old and rotting daysailer which he intended to restore - however, he realised that starting from scratch would be easier and give him a brand new boat which, with modern strip plank construction,...

18' Ant Broads Dayboat

The Ant is similar in size to our Bungay but represents another variation of the type of delightful dayboat found on the Norfolk Broads. She has a simple high peak balanced lug rig - this shape of sail allows the use of stays which in turns means that...

Skylark 10' Plans

The Skylark 10, for her length, is a large dinghy and quite capable of accommodating a family of 2 adults and 3 children comfortably. Several 10's have been built by clients who have a spare rig (Mirror etc) and who want a simple and easily built hull...

Sou'wester Plans PDF

The Sou'Wester Dory a traditional type for the modern homebuilder. This is a type small boat, which was developed by New England fisherman for use off the beach. It is primarily rowing boat and performs beautifully under oars. It will sail well with...

16' River Lapwing Catboat Plans

This is a curvaceous and neat example of the traditional American catboat. She has been designed to give maximum usability and space in a 16' long package. There is plenty of room for storage and to fit the batteries for an electric drive pod. The...

Rogue Printed Plans

For Rogue Plans Digital Download, click HERE Many designs start as an idea brewing away in the back of my mind, and are only brought to the fore when a prospective client enquiries for something that fits the idea. Rogue was one of these, I'd been...

Highlander 16 Plans

The Highlander 16' dayboat was designed for a New Zealand client who wanted a rugged camping dinghy/dayboat for use around North Island. She retains the easy riding 'U' shape of the other Highlanders forward but departs from their shape in having a...

15' American Peapod Plans

This is a beautiful double ender for simplified strip plank and epoxy construction. Temporary moulds are set up with pre-shaped stem, stern post and hog and then the boat is planked with thin strips of Cedar glued edge to edge with epoxy giving a...

Little Egret Plans PDF

Little Egret is an open Sharpie of 18' 10" x 4' 10″ x 6", with a hull shape reminiscent of the famous 28' Sharpie, Egret, designed by Ralph Middleton Munroe in 1886 for use in the shallow waters of Florida. I have long had a fascination for...

Ebihen 16 - Clinker (Lapstrake)

Traditional sail boat, 4.8 m long, with outboard motor well, clinker plywood For Ebihen Study Plans, click HERE Hull length / waterline 4.80 / 4.54 m   Sail area 14 m²   Breadth / waterline 1.85 / 1.64 m   Outboard...

Wooboto Plans PDF

Steve Chambers out in California had built a Roar2 very quickly, in two or three weeks as I recall, and had gone off rowing with it and liked it a lot. He started looking for a design to learn sailing. He was thinking of my old Woobo design but got to...

16' Iona Skiff Plans

For those who want to build a classically designed double ended clinker craft, this boat has been developed from the Shetland Skiff and North American Peapod dinghy. Construction is greatly simplified from the conventional clinker method and kept to a...

Ebihen 15 - Strip Planked

Traditional sail boat, 4.5 m long, with outboard motor well, strip planked over laminated frames For Ebihen 15 Study Plans, click HERE Hull length / waterline 4.50 / 4.24 m   Sail area 14 m²   Breadth / waterline 1.85 / 1.64...

Ilur Classic

The most popular sail and oar boat For a digital Study Plan for Ilur, click HERE Hull length / waterline 4.44/ 4.10 m Sail area 12.2 m² Breadth / waterline 1.70 / 1.46 m Outboard motor 4 hp Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m Design category /...

Arctic Skua Canoe Yawl Plans

The Arctic Skua is a lightweight canoe yawl that has a nod towards the small canoe yawls that were popular in Europe during the last century for touring and racing. She uses 4mm ply and the stitch and tape method of construction to produce a easily built...

Swift 6M Dayboat Plans

The Swift 6 metre dayboat was commissioned by Mr. P. Roberts who wanted an easily built boat similar in line to some of the French dayboats. In fact, she is also similar to boats of the Gareloch and Loch Long classes raced on the Clyde. The drawings...

Brio 555 Plans

Designer: Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo CostaChine hull, Stitch&Glue constructionBuilding Skills: medium The BRIO 555 is what is usually called a "collective dinghy". This terminology refers to its use as a sailing school boat - where it is common to...

17'3" Gdansk Plans

he ‘‘Gdansk’’ is a modified version of the ‘‘Puck’’ Polish fishing boat design for a client who didn’t mind giving up the double ended hull. Her basic particulars are similar to the ‘‘Puck’’ design but she has a transom stern, a...

14'7" Cub Skiff Plans

14’7’’x 3’9’’ (ex. gunwale). Approx. weight excl. gear 90 lbs. A skiff for rowing, sailing, paddling and punting. Built from pre-shaped ply panels in two halves for ease in car topping and carrying. Designed for fun, exercise and pic-nics on...

Walkabout Printed Plans

A study plan download for Walkabout is available HERE For Full Walkabout Plans Digital Download, click HERE "Walkabout" as in "He's gone Walkabout" an Australian term meaning "a journey undertaken without notice or warning, of no fixed duration, with...

Highlander 18 Plans

The Highlander 18 has been developed for the sailor or fisherman wanting a boat that he can use comfortably for estuary and coastal work. Points taken into her design are easy trailability (hence she uses salt water ballast which drains as she is...

15' Kestral Peapod Plans

Kestral is a beautiful 15' Peapod type craft with four planks per side. The drawings give the plank shapes for simple stitch and epoxy construction but she could either be strip planked or built using the clinker ply method. She would make a very...

Oxford Strip Planked Sailing/Rowing Skiff Plans

A strip planked skiff for Mr. P. Hobbs with a simple lug rig - the hull is based on a traditional Thames skiff with it's slender and graceful shape ending in an attractive "wineglass" transom. She has a centreboard arrangement and plenty of room inside...

Woobo Plans PDF

Woobo was designed for the "perfect skiff" competition that Wooden Boat magazine had about ten years ago (hence the name "Woobo"). I didn't win anything and the experience led me to never enter another contest. Although the contest was well conceived I...

16' Granville Bay Plans PDF

Free PDF Model to print, cut and build - click HERE This hull is an “expanded” design of the 12ft GB that was named after my best friend of 47 years. I jumped up to 16ft instead of doing a 14ft version, as I wanted a bigger boat that could be...

Argie 15 Plans

~ Attractive & versatile , Argie 15 offers fun for the whole family.~ Multi-purpose, can be rowed, motored or sailed, space for camp-cruising on lakes and rivers.~ Simple stitch and glue method, build with minimum of tools, no previous boatbuilding...

AWOL Printed Plans

For study plan download, click HERE. For AWOL Plans digital download, click HERE David Perillo was one of my most enthusiastic Navigator owners, he'd bought a second hand one after having to sell a much bigger boat and after sailing it on Aucklands...

Myst Plans Instant Download

for printed plans - click HEREdownload free study plans HERE MYST: Building plans consist of 27 pages of written text and 11 sheets of computer-generated drawings, including full-size patterns for all major structural components (moulds,...

V14 Runabout Plans

Click HERE for free study plan download Full size templates for this boat are available HERESpecifications Length - 13' 10" Beam - 4' 10"Bare Hull Weight - (approx) 250 lbsPower Requirement: 10 to 30 hp, short shaft outboard 'V14' is an (almost)...

24' New Bedford Whaler Plans

The New Bedford Whalers were renowned for their ruggedness and sea-kindly manner. Typically they were 28' or 30' long. I was asked to draw up the lines for a shorter version for a film company and decided to use this design work as the basis of a full...