Plans & Kits

DOWN IN TEXAS.... They started a "cruise", not really a race, 200 miles up the protected waters of the intercoastal waterway. They say the wind blows strong and from such a direction that you reach or run the whole way and usually in smooth water. The...

An economical and singular weekend cruiser For Tatoo 598 Study Plans, click HERE Fast overview: Motor boat with a little cabin (dog house) opened below and closed with a dralon curtain. Galley, 2 berths, Headroom of 1,77m, 60hp outboard, trailerable, big...

Pirogue 460 / 15’   15' x 7.5' &€“ 130 Lbs. Sail area 5.15 m² / 56 Sq.Ft.   This project start has a request from a college teacher to create an outrigger canoe for teenagers, based on the local traditional boats of Mayotte...

"IRREDUCIBLE" — 10' Inboard launch, and is just what the name implies. Includes lines, construction plan, table of offsets, article reprint. One sheet. IrreducibleA Small Boat with a Large Background(reprinted from "The Rudder") THIS little ship is...

John Trussel built the prototype Toon19 in South Carolina. He had built several boats before this one including a Mixer of my design. He wrote this essay about his Toon19: Toon 19 For a number of years I have owned various "shallow water cruisers" (to...

The traditional Punter is a small Dutch work boat with a simple single chine and flat bottomed hull and an upper strake which is shaped to give tumblehome. Her sprit rig is very practical allowing the sail to be brailed up against the mast when not in...

Set up just about any canoe as a sailing outrigger.

  The KD 650 is an other approach for an affordable trailer catamaran for amateur construction. The boat is designed for coastal sailing and will have a good turn of speed with its efficient Gunter rig. The boat is easy to build with...

Overall Length 18'-8-1/2" Overall Beam 46" Weight 148 lbs. Volume 147.6 c.f. CRUISE AT YOUR OWN PACE! There's an exciting new class of high-performance rowing boat from the drawing board of small-craft adventurer Colin Angus: The RowCruiser. This...

Campjon is based on my Jonsboat design. I increased the hull depth to 24" from 18" and again to 30" in the region of the 6' long cuddy cabin. The cabin decks slope upward towards the center so the "headroom" in the middle is about 3', usually that is...

Multi-purpose, can be rowed, motored or sailed and is light enough for one person to lift on and off the family car or yacht. Simple stitch and glue construction, it can be built with the minimum of tools, no previous boatbuilding experience and in...

Note: This is the study plan, for the full plans click HERE The ECO 6 looks like the ECO55 cruiser, but it is a completely new design. The small increase of only 0.5m and increasing the total beam to 2.84m created a lot of possibilities. The...