Plans & Kits

For a study plan download for Penguin, click HERE For full printed plans for Penguin, click HERE I have only rarely been tempted to enter the design competitions run by magazines, of the two occasions I have gone to the trouble of producing the very...

For Pelegrin Study Plan instand download, click HERE For Pelegrin Full Printed Plans, click HERE Most languages have a word which conveys the image of the wanderer, someone who has a dreamy far away look in their eye, who stays for a day or three then...

For study plans click HERE For full printed plans, click HERE Navigator has turned out to be the surprise package of the whole bunch, 300 plus sets of plans in today's market is a lot! Navigator was designed for Boat Books Auckland's proprietor Tim Ridge...

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...

For Light Dory Printed Plans, click HERE It suddenly dawned on me one bright October morn that barring miracles or extraordinary effort there would be no Christmas cruise that year. I'm not sure when the idea first began but it wasn't long before the...

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...