Waterman 13 Plans

The Waterman canoes are more than simple open Canadian type canoes; they are a complete canoeing experience - from simply being a family open day canoe to a camping/sailing/portaging craft capable of being used to explore normally impenetrable rivers and...

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...

14' Nuthatch Pram Plans - Sailing Version PDF

The 14ft Nuthatch Pram (sailing version) Thank you for choosing to build the 14 foot Nuthatch Pram. After designing and building the 8ft Nuthatch Pram and designing the 12ft Nuthatch Pram, I thought that a larger version of the hull would be a good fit...

16' Robin Plans

The ROBIN is a design requested by a client who had already built one of our Wren stitch and tape ply canoes and who wanted a similar craft in strip planked construction with a sweet round bilge shape. The basic parameters for this design are similar to...

Hoopy Plans PDF

The Hoopy wooden bicycle. It might look complicated to make but the frame can be marked, cut out and glued ready for varnish in just two days. The box section frame is immensely strong yet only weighs 3 kilos. The Hoopy is a 'one size fits all' bicycle...

12' Asymmetric Strip Planked Baby Raven Plans

So far this is the smallest strip plank canoe we have designed - although we do know that strip planked version of our Little Kate design have been made simply by using the mould shapes we give for clinker construction and putting a curve through the...

Zipper Plans

Free Zipper study plans HERE Full size templates for this boat are available HERE *Full size templates are in .pdf format. They need to be printed on a plan printing machine. Most cities have plan printing shops that can do this for you,...

4+Coroplast Hulls Plans PDF

There are 4 + different hull types defined on these plans. Each has it attributes, and shortcomings. All are for a single occupant, and all have a maximum capacity of about 220 pounds, including all gear. The intent of these designs is to provide a...

Scow 420 "Cruiser" Plans PDF

14 foot simple cruiser sailboat for two overnight or three for a day cruise, design for protected or inlands waters. This scow should be a good compromise, with the comfort of the Scow 450, in a lighter and much simpler package. 11 sheets of ACX...

Chamberlain Gunning Dory Plans PDF

A handsome pulling dory 18' 4" x 4' 8" - 5.59m x 1.42m Maximum recommended capacity is 4 adults (and gear) Weight: 120-150lbs {54-68kg} For printed plans for Chamberlain Gunning Dory, click HERE The great John Gardner called the Gunning Dory...

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...

15'7" Raven Plans

Adrian Cabedo (see the Wren) came back to us for a second design. He wanted a slightly more sophisticated design, still of the Canadian type, for long distance portaging and camping in Spain. Basing the new design on the Wren, we increased her beam to...

15' Marathon Plans

The Marathon series of open canoes started with the Marathon 18 which was designed as a fast long distance canoe for a crew of 2 who would use her to race and portage around locks etc - so good straight line speed and light weight were essential...

Ruth Plans PDF

A high performance rowing wherry 18' x 33" {5.5m x .84m} Maximum recommended capacity: 375lbs - 171kg Weight about 45 lbs {21kg} For Ruth printed plans, click HERE RUTH is a unique performance rowing wherry - a tried and true idea which crosses the line...

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...

Trillo Plans

These are full plans. For Study Plans, click HERE For those who design boats for amateur boat builders, the small cruise trimaran represents a complex and stimulating theme. The challenge is to simplify its design and facilitate the construction of a...

Millennium Falcon Plans PDF

Design #236 is a quad version of Dawn Treader, #246. They call it "The Great Catalina Island to Marina del Rey Rowing and Paddling Derby". That may not be the official title, but that is the popular name. It is staged annually around October first, by...

Inseparable 398 Full Plans

A Cat or Sloop rigged, unsinkable, pocket cruiser For Inseparable 398 Study Plans, click HERE Visit this facebook page (created by the owner of the first boat)and see photos of construction Cat boat, pocket-coastal-cruiser, unsinkable, 2 berthes and...

Origami 6 Plans PDF

Origami 6also see Origami 8 Folded: 6'2" (188cm) Long - 17" (43cm) Wide - 4" (10cm) High.Assembled: 6'2" (188cm) Long - 3'2" (97cm) Wide - 14" (35cm) High.Weight: From 15 kilos (33lbs)Carrying capacity: Two adults or 150 kilos (330lbs)Max outboard size:...

Duo Plans Download

( Duo is also the main hull of the Tryst trimaran) About Woods Downloadable Plans LOA 3m (10ft) Rowing Beam 1.0m (3ft3in)Sailing Beam 1.5m (5ft)Empty Hull Weight 20kgs (45lbs)Sail Area 5sqm (53sqft)Draft 0.13m - 0.75m (5in - 2ft6in)Crew capacity...

Imresboat plans PDF

Imresboat is a slimmed up version of Larsboat which was designed for Lars Hasselgren to replace a Folboat that had finally met its end. Lars wanted capacity for two, plus decking, as with his old Folboat. But Imre wanted something more slender and...

Elco 26 Full Plans PDF

The smallest practical cruiser. For Elco 26 Study Plans click HERE "ELCO 26 PLANS" - Original 26' classic cruiser, wood. Original Elco design, redrawn by designer Tom Beard. 25' 11" LOA, Beam 8' 6", Draft 2' 3". Includes arrangements, lines, table of...

Duck Boat Plans PDF

For printed plans, click HERE known variously as a scullboat, sneakboat, a poke boat, and a layout boat Click HERE for an article about this boat from Outdoor Life Magazine The duck boat is 11 feet 10 inches by 3 feet wide. The original traditional...

Sherpa Printed Plans

For a Study Plan for Sherpa in PDF format, click HERE For a full Plan for Sherpa in the form of a Digital Download, click HERE I had an enquiry from a liveaboard couple who needed to cover the two hundred yards or so from the town jetty to their forty...

Pollywog Plans PDF

There is now a sail supplement available for this boat HERE A SIMPLE TWO-PART MODULAR BOAT THAT CAN BENESTED AND EASILY STORED ON-BOARD,OR IN AN RV, SUV, TRUCK and GARAGE. Only 5 feet long for transport. INTENDED AS A BRING-ALONG TENDER OR...

Slingshot 19 Trimaran Plans

Features:Top Speed (typical) = 14 mph# Of Occupants = Two (with option for three)Length Overall = 18’ 10”Beam Overall With Standard Non-Folding Akas = 12’Beam With Optional Folding Akas = 7’ 2” Closed, 14’ 6” OpenNOTE: You get my folding...

14'9" Grebe Peapod Plans

This design is a symmetrical Peapod - in other words the front and back of the hull are exactly the same which is how most Peapods were designed and built.The length is the maximum that can be obtained by butting 2 sheets of standard 8' plywood together...

Hawke Bay 20' Rowing Skiff Plans

The Hawke Bay 20 shares the same features as the 22’ except that she is 2’ shorter and the drawings are for construction in stitch and tape plywood. She is a high volume skiff for offshore rowing in heavy seas. Despite her high buoyancy and storage...

Silver 55 Plans

The classical hull shape of the old wooden runabouts of the 70's go perfectly well with the use of marine plywood and this allows the SILVER to be constructed with a similar method to the stitch and glue one. The SILVER boats are not "instant boats" and...

12' Padilla Bay Skiff Plans PDF

This was the first skiff design that I had worked on. I wanted to fill in my designed fleet of boats to include all the different hull types. My other flat bottomed boat designs were aimed toward the stable platforms desired by fly fishermen. This hull...

Ladybug Plans PDF

Ladybug is a lot like Woobo which was one of my first designs. There was a Woobo near here for a while. I never got to sail it but was told it would really fly. (That boat was made of Lauan plywood from Home Depot which fell to pieces after rainwater...

8' Norwegian Pram Plans PDF

For printed plans, click HERE makes a classy lightweight cartopper or foredeck dingy This little round bottom pram makes a classy lightweight cartopper or foredeck dingy. It rows easily and with the centerboard and simple sail rig it also makes a fine...

ECO 62 Houseboat Plans

To have fun on the water a houseboat is a practical solution. The exist already in all possible shapes. Many more house as boat, others more boat as house. Here a bit an other approach. The ECO 62 is a catamaran houseboat. Compared to houseboats of...

PH13 Plans PDF

A lightweight solo canoe 13' x 27" {3.96m x 69cm} Recommended paddler size: 200lbs / 91kg. Weight about 26 lbs. {12 Kg} For PH13 printed plans, click HERE The PH-13 is a lightweight, easy to build skin-on-frame solo canoe. She's stable, comfortable and...

15' Rascal Motor Dory/Skiff Plans

This is a simple and very easily built motor dory for use with outboards up to around 50 hp in size. She can either be made by wrapping the pre-shaped sides around the frames, fastening on an external chine stringer and then putting the bottom ply on...

28' Corn Bunting

This 28' LOA launch is based on the 30' Amaryllis and has the same sweet wineglass transom and well rounded bow with firm bilges. She has been designed as an open launch with an aft cockpit with an athwartships steering wheel position right beside the...

24' Fast Cruiser (GA & Lines only)

A simple multi chine yacht with accommodation for up to 4/5 in what is, a fairly open plan and basic accommodation. A more modern arrangement with separate heads could be fitted. To keep construction as simple as possible, ply/epoxy construction or...

15'10" Wren Plans

The WREN is typical Canadian canoe built using the stitch and tape ply method. Her design was based upon an original Indian bark canoe and simplified for ply construction but without loosing the essence of her beautiful shape. She is very quick and...

16' Selway Fisher Melonseed Skiff Plans

The original Melonseed skiffs were gunning boats for hunting around the New Jersey area of North America. Unlike some of the other gunning skiffs and sneak boxes which were definitely inland boats, the Melonseeds were for use in more open and estuary...

Deckster Plans PDF

Deckster Length - 170cm (5'7") Width - 115cm (3'6") Weight in deck stow mode - 25 kilos (55lbs) Weight fully assembled - 30 kilos (66lbs) Carrying...

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...

Simplicity 20 Plans

Following along the same lines as her smaller sister, this cruiser is an ultra simple boat with plenty of space and performance for her size. She has room for 3 or 4 berths plus galley and portable wc. Construction simply involves fixing pre-shaped...

6' 9" PUD-g Plans PDF

PUD-g Specifications Length: 6' 9" Beam: 48" Weight: 65 lbs Max Outboard: 2 hp Maximum Load: 440 lbs This design is a departure from what I had told myself about not working on any more short boats. Most people are looking for a boat...

Rockland 11' Plans

This dinghy was developed from our Skylark Mk 2 series of pram dinghies. The dinghy retains the flat, rockered bottom panel and the side panels are round bilge in shape and are either cold moulded or strip planked over the moulds which are drawn full...

YW Heron Plans

Heron class sailing dinghy was originally designed by Jack Holt and has been around now, for many years - many sailors first took to the water in a Heron and she remains a positive favourite amongst young and old alike with a very active Class...

Annabelle Skiff Plans PDF

10' x 4' - 3.04m x 1.22m 52 sq ft of sail area, utilizing a standing lug sail Maximum recommended capacity is 400lbs/182kg For printed plans for Annabelle, click HERE A skiff for sailing and rowing The Annabelle Skiff is a unique skin-on-frame sailing...

Unicat 2.4 Plans PDF

Click HERE for Full Size Patterns (PDF file) for Unicat 2.4 The Unicat 2.4 is a multipurpose dinghy for use as a tender, fishing boat, or general messing about on the water. Stitch and tape construction provides a boat which is light, durable, low...

Jonsboat Plans Instant Download

Jonsboat is just a jonboat. But where I live that says a lot because most of the boats around here are jonboats and for a good reason. These things will float on dew if the motor is up. This one shows 640 pounds displacement with only 3" of draft. That...

Tryst 10 Trimaran Plans Download

About Woods Downloadable Plans Click HERE to download Free Study Plans The 10ft Tryst trimaran is a variation of the Duo dinghy The main hull is a sailing Duo and it is fitted with two Vee shaped outriggers that bolt onto the Duo wings. The wings are...