Boats

With one person aboard, the Ace will goes 32 mph with a 16 hp outboard motor.

A motorized paddle wheel flat bottomed boat.

Summer Breeze was designed to be the most boat from the least materials. It is a robust all purpose skiff targeted primarily at pleasurable rowing and sailing in protected waters, but also suitable for a small motor. It is light enough to car top, narrow enough for most truck beds and yet has capacity for two adults and a child.

This little gem is from a 1950 edition of Boat Builder is Annual. Also a note from Tom Dacon who had one as a boy.

This is a 15 ft Sharpie Skiff made with all straight saw cuts with 4 sheets of plywood.

This updated and completely revised publication follows an exhaustive study by the author in collaboration with research institutions and engineers on structural timber design applied to wooden boat construction. The designs included are appropriate for inshore and coastal fisheries and emphasis has been placed on relative ease of construction and minimum wastage of timber.

Coolwater - A $70 SHANTY BOAT!! Well, maybe it might cost a little more in today is money. These plans even detail how to make a built in wooden bilge pump!

Designed by Albert Nazarov, Maxim Kovalyov, Dmitry Dolinsky. Published in Power & Sail Boats magazine.

This little gem is from a 1950 edition of Boat Builders Annual. Hi Sibley may have foreseen the Bolger Box boat movement! You think?

The Ozarks has many things that are all its own, One of the most interesting products of the Ozarks is the johnboat, a combination of the ingenuity of the people and the natural features of the region.

Here is a fun nautical shelf, perfect for a childs room. Follow along and build one in no time.

This is a simple project when pre-cut pieces are used. Scrap pine can be used for all parts.

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.

Designed by Albert Nazarov & Maxim Kovalyov. Design Drawings and Specifications provided by: Nazarov Yacht Design

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.

A wooden boat bookcase plan. This unique boat bookcase is sure to be a talking point in the home of any woodworker.

This 14-footer has three cockpits, a transom for motor or rudder, and a double-deck track for snapping on oarlocks and cockpit covers.

Clamp this simple spritsail onto any small, square-sterned rowboat or dinghy, and presto you will have yourself a fine little wind cruiser!

There are lockers with hinged tops at each end for storage of toys and other belongings. In the section under the mattress, there is additional storage space for blankets, bedding, etc. The mast makes a convenient clothes hanger.

At the link the template for the wooden paddle boat is available for free download as well as lots of pictures to help you along the way.

Although a full-rigged, delicately balanced ice-yacht looks like a very complicated piece of mechanism, when it is carefully examined the framework will be found to consist of two pieces crossing each other at right angles.

Construction plans for a boat landing with a wharf and a covered boatport and deck with seating.

8 foot Flat. Large images to download, be patient.

Here is a simple way to keep your boats fitted tarpaulin puddle free. An easy to build boat-cover rack. The two piece rack straddles the boat and is both crowned and inclined for runoff.

Build your own fun with this child size toy boat. Full instructions are available at the link.

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.

Build your own backyard boat sandpit using the free woodworking instructions available at the link. The sail will provide a bit of shade and there is even a place to sit.