Boats, Dories and other Watercraft
This free woodworking plans list features an extensive list of free building projects to construct boats and watercraft of all sizes and purposes. Not all of the listings provide exact details on building methods. Builders should have some knowledge of basic wood handling and its characteristics related to marine purposes. Specific questions related to building these projects should be addressed to the web site you visited. Look for the page navigation link near the bottom of this list as there are many more pages for free boat building projects.
Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. Plans at this site are large and slow loading so be patient.
8 foot flat. Large picture files to download so be patient.
Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. Plans at this site are large and slow loading so be patient.
38 mph, $38 to build and 38 hours to build. Price does not account for inflation :-)
A 12 to 16 foot runabout that handles easily at speeds up to 30 mph.
Designed by Albert Nazarov, Maxim Kovalyov, Dmitry Dolinsky. Published in Power & Sail Boats magazine.
Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. You will find many interesting plans to inspire yourself and those you care about.
The canoe on the beach at Slopeng on the north shore of Madura. Slopeng is the name in Bahasa Madura, the local language, but some maps call it Salompeng.
Designed by Albert Nazarov & Maxim Kovalyov. Design Drawings and Specifications provided by: Nazarov Yacht Design
As simple as it can get. This is another easy start for boat building. A very simple 7 foot 4 inches x 3 foot 10 inch dinghy, made out of simple materials, using a simple construction method and just the basic tools. And perhaps even simpler than the original one sheet Simbo.
8 foot. Large picture files to download so be patient.
With one person aboard, the Ace will goes 32 mph with a 16 hp outboard motor.
Clamp this simple spritsail onto any small, square-sterned rowboat or dinghy, and presto you will have yourself a fine little wind cruiser!
The canoe is 13 feet by 31 inches, but no great harm can result from making it a little shorter or stretching it to 15 or 16 feet. Nowadays we would add watertight bulkheads in the ends for flotation.
These canoe paddles were built by laminating strips of lumber together. Follow along and see how it was done.
The Bugis ethnic group of Sulawesi are famous for their maritime exploits. These exploits once included enough piracy to inspire our word boogey-man inches or bogey-man inches. Today their huge fleet of wooden Pinisi inches ships carry freight all around the islands of S.E. Asia. Less known are their outrigger canoes. Hereâs one particularly cute example of the Lepa-lepa inches. Syamsuryadi aka Syamsu inches built it in 1999 for fishing.
This 14-footer has three cockpits, a transom for motor or rudder, and a double-deck track for snapping on oarlocks and cockpit covers.
You can build your son or daughter a plywood canoe in a weekend. The simplest canoes are made of just 3 pieces of plywood: the two sides, and the base. More complex shapes can be created, but these instructions are for a simple canoe.
8 foot Flat. Large images to download, be patient.
Our motto is cheap, creative, and having fun on the water inches. The PDRacer is a one design racing sailboat that is basically a plywood box with a curved bottom, and is the easiest boat in the world to build. Free plans, free club, all boats must have have the lower 10 inches of their hulls be alike, but the rest is up to the builder. You can put any type of sail rig or underwater fins that you wish. Also the interior and deck above 10 inches is completely up to you.
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