Plans & Kits

The Stornoway 9 is the first of a new class of dinghies which incorporate firm bilges and moderately full transoms needed to carry loads safely and to give good sailing qualities without dragging a large transom through the water. The plank shapes...

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,...

NINFA is the name of a kayak which used to be built in plastic, reinforced with fibreglass by Alessandrini's company ASA, a historical canoe factory around 30 years ago; it was also my first kayak and gave me great satisfaction. Since then, as with all...

Click HERE for Free Study Plans Download Full size templates for this boat are available HERE Kalostyn was designed as the subject matter of a book that I had planned to write called, 'How to design a boat using SketchUp 3D software'. I created a...

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...

LOA 9' or 10' 9" Beam 34" The plans come as 10 sheets giving the details required to build both the 9ft and the 10.8ft versions, and are available in either metric or imperial measure. They come in printed form (10 sheets of A3-sized paper and a 22 page...

11'6" x 29" / 3.5m x 74cmMaximum recommended paddler size: 170lbs / 78kgWeight is about 20lbs / 9kg For printed plans for this boat, click HERE An SUP meant for smaller paddlers The Aloha is a SUP meant for smaller paddlers. She's fast, stable, easy to...

Herb McLeod lives in western Canada and likes to tease the rest of us with photos like the one above. Beautiful! Here is his RB42 out camping with two aboard.RB42 is a row boat for two! The prototype was built by Herb McLeod of Edmonton, Alberta. Look...

This a smaller version of our popular 12’9” Waterboy. The design has the same high volume hull with tumblehome and 4 planks per side with a narrow flat bottom as it’s bigger brother. Construction is simple stitch and tape using 4mm ply...

This new design has been floating around in my head for several years now. I really didn’t want to do any kayak or canoe designs, as there are already enough of them out there in the world, and one more wasn’t really needed. So here’s...

A lovely looking classic dinghy Click HERE for a Morbic 12 Study Plan PDF Hull length / waterline 3.67 / 3.35 m   Sail area 7.6 m²   Breadth / waterline 1.55 / 1.30 m   Outboard motor 4 hp   Draught 0.17 / 0.78...

A handy row/sail dinghy pram 7'11" x 47" {2.4m x 1.2m} Maximum recommended capacity is 400lbs {182kg} Weight about 55 lbs. {25 Kg} For printed plans for Piankatank River Pram, click HERE The PRP is a great handling little skin-on-frame dinghy designed...