Rowboats

 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...

  The Sandolo is a traditional flat bottomed rowing boat used in Venice and the Venetian Lagoon and unlike the Gondola is, like most craft, symmetrical about it's centerline. In fact it is of a simple flat bottomed, single chine shape with...

Oarsome Chance came to me for the design of a 24' Coastal Rowing Skiff which could be more easily used as a multi-role boat and which was safer for use offshore. Instead of a double ended design, often used for this role, we went for a transomed design...

This is the Selway Fisher version of the lovely Whitehall Skiff. The origins of the Whitehall Skiff (or pulling boat) are a little vague - some say that her design came from some of the small workboats around Whitehall in London but others trace her...

This is the last of the “bevel bottom” hulls that I will design. There are four of them now, and that should be enough. With the Green River, Cedar River, Naselle River, and now the James Boat designs. Each of the hulls in the...

Note: Full size patterns are available for these plans HERE Bigger - Better - More Stable The new Unicat 2.8. You asked for it and it's finally here. This is not just a lengthened 2.4, it's a completely new hull, designed from the ground up with more...

The Green River was the one that gave me the idea for the Naselle River Drifter. I started out designing this hull as a modified version on one of my regular drift boat hulls, but with beveled lower bottom side panels. As I drew up the hull on my...

Yole 475 / 15.5 A rowing skiff with planing hull, optimize for light weight- LOA 4.75 m x beam 0.86 m, water line 0.7 m- Weight 40 kgFull plans in PDF with 3D building guide.5 sheets of ACX 1/5 or 1/4 – 5/6 mm plywood. Simple lumber assembly for...

The 12ft Green River Drifter This hull was the one that gave me the idea for the Naselle River Drifter. I started out designing this hull as a modified version on one of my regular drift boat hulls, but with beveled lower bottom panels. As I drew up the...

This hull is spin off of another hull I was working on over the winter. That hull, the Green River Drifter was a variation on my drifter hulls with a “beveled” chine panel on the lower sides, but still had a single piece bow and stern panel...

A rough water rowing and racing shell Length - 22' / 6.7m or 24' / 7.32m Beam - 24" / 61cm Waterline beam - 14" / 36cm Max recommended rower weights - 220lbs / 100kgs or 240lbs / 109kgs Weight 55-60lbs / 25-27kgs For printed plans for RacerX...

15' x 46" / 4.57m x 1.17m  Reasonable maximum capacity - about 500lbs / 227kgs  Weight - about 60lbs / 27kgs For Shenandoah Whitehall printed plans, click HERE Sadly, not my idea, but I was immediately enthused about the it, and the...