Rowboats

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...

For printed plans click HERE This boat rows great, btw, and you should include her as a rowboat, as well. She's our go-to boat for family excursions these days, as even the smallest of electric trolling motors pushes her around easily. Much easier than...

The Thames 32 has primarliy been designed for Foam Re-inforced Plastic (FRP) construction - the plans give details of the male plug (so that a female mould tool can be made) which can also be built as a finished wood hull. The wood hull can be built...

Fliptail 7 Assembled - 7'2" (219cm) Long - 40" (102cm) Wide - 16" (40cm) High. Folded - 7'2" (219cm) Long - 24" (60cm) Wide - 10" (25cm) High. Weight - Basic boat from 18 kilos (39lbs) Carrying capacity - Three adults or 225 kilos...

Designed for a client who wanted a simple stackable fishing dinghy which he could easily carry himself, the Doracle uses just 2 sheets of 4, 5 or 6mm ply. She may be built in 2 pieces with the forward piece stacked inside the aft section. The 2 halves...

For PDF plans, click HERE a stable lightweight boat that can be fitted out for whitewater Designed as a stable lightweight boat that can be fitted out for whitewater or casual fishing, this Clark Fork Drifter is a downsized and much simplified version of...

LIGHT ROWBOAT, 12' X 45", 60 POUNDS EMPTY Vireo is a very light and simple boat with lines that make for very surprising performance. A while back I built a dink called WeeVee which was the usual 7-1/2' long. It had a V bottom full length and had to be...

Free Study Plans Download - Click HERE 'Trixie' began as an idea for a small and simple to build plywood tender, able to get out to a mooring with two or three on board, that was very light, incorporated wheels to enable transport to the slipway, was...