Plans & Kits

For Joansa Printed Plans, click HERE A while ago I spent a season cruising in a very capable light dory I'd designed, the trips ranged from a week which took me from Dargaville down the Kaipara harbour to Helensville, to an afternoon trip up to...

For Janette Printed Plans, click HERE The original "Jane", designed in 1985 sold almost 100 sets of plans showing the strong popularity of the simple, inexpensive multi purpose boat of this size. "Jane's" seem to stay with their owners for a long time...

For Houdini study plan download, click HERE For Houdini Full printed plans, click HERE I had planned on using the sports rowing boat Seagull as my getaway boat over the Christmas period but when out on the river with a group of the Traditional Small...

For Printed Plans, click HERE I was fiddling around with the scale models and drawings for a proposed series of flat bottomed skiffs when Richard Desborough visited. I've known Dick for more years than either of us care to admit to and for a lot of...

For Fafnir Study Plan download, click HERE. For Fafnir Full Printed Plans, click HERE Fafnir came about in part because of a customers want for a very small blue water capable yacht in which to attempt a non-stop circumnavigation.  He was wanting to...

For Daniel's Boat Printed Plans, click HERE Twelve year old Daniel had pretty much outgrown his Stuart Reid designed miniature flat bottomed skiff, and father Wayne Chittenden had arranged to stay with me over one Christmas to do a spot of boat...

For Printed Plans, click HERE This one began when Boatbuilder Barry Wicks came across a Guy called Mike Maskill, a banjo player residing near Brisbane somewhere. Mike had recognised the dire straights that the East Timorese coastal villagers were in...

For study plan download, click HERE. For AWOL Printed Plans, 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 wonderful...

For 6 Meter Whaler Study Plans, click HERE  For 6 Meter Whaler Printed 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...

A client who had already built the 14' Morning Tide Pocket Cruiser asked me to design a 20' double ended 'pocket ship' for him and the Isle of Gigha is the result.In such a short length she has room for 4 berths for day/weekend sailing plus a wc...

The 16' Hazelnut is based on the 17' version but has been drawn up with the clinker/ply construction method in mind using a building jig and moulds to gain the plank shapes. She has 5 planks per side.The plank shapes and building details are also...

 The Shelduck Duck Punt is a simple plywood punt suitable for river and canal rowing and some quiet fishing. Although she has the flat bottom of the Eider Duck punt, she is double ended like the Ruddy Duck punt.Construction is stitch and tape...