Boats

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.

This is a link to a Google 3D SketchUp drawing for an easy to build stand to support your small water craft. You will need the SketchUp software to download this drawing and its freely available online. We do not provide support for this software. Not all drawings have the measurements displayed but you can use the measurement tool in SketchUp to easily and accurately determine the dimensions of each lumber part. Most drawings do not have instructions, its assumed you can build it based on the completed drawing provided.

The Admirals Hat - A one sheet navy admirals hattorious hatship.

An easily built 9 foot pram.

The Micro Folding Dinghy is based on one of Matt Layden is early folding dinghies; however it incorporates some of Matts ideas as well as a few of our own to create a cheap and sturdy boat. The Micro Folding Dinghy is best suited to smaller people or for children, but it can be enlarged to fit larger folks...

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.

.Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. Plans at this site are large and slow loading so be patient.

I think this boat could be quite something - a fast 14ft one-man rower that comes out of two sheets of ply. Designed for flat water, you will notice that in order to reduce the fuss at the waterline to a minimum, I have worked the waterline at the design displacement so that it just kisses the chine.

The Little Sister Eco design is basically just like any 18 ft x 4 ft (5.5 m x 1.2 m) banks type dory.

A 14-1/2 foot runabout.

This is an easy start for boat building. A very simple made out of simple materials, using a simple construction method and just the basic tools.

A speedy 13 ft runabout.

The Z, or 48 cubic inch racing runabout is the smallest inboard raceboat recognized by the APBA.

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.

Swamp Thing looks fairly sleek in some ways, but has low freeboard and holds only one person. We wanted to be able to go rowing together, but we also wanted to be able to pick the boats up and put them in the back of a small truck. That meant we each needed our own boat.

A boat made of just a single standard sheet of plywood.

A winter evening project for the sportsman who wants his own boat for next summer is outings.

I found the frame drawings of this dinghy in a book published in 1957, thatâs why Dinghy -57 inches. This is an adaptation of those drawings to stich and glue construction.

Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. Plans at this site are large and slow loading 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.

Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. Plans at this site are large and slow loading so be patient.

A super speedster.

Welcome to the home of free boat and model airplane plans. Plans at this site are large and slow loading so be patient.

A 21 foot cabin cruiser. Be patient when downloading, images at the site are large.

Flying Mouse is an exercise to develop just about the smallest, cheapest possible sailing boat I can conceive. As a result, its not a boat to which you can safely trust your life in any sort of waves - as anyone who climbs into a Flying Mouse will quickly figure out.

A sailboard rig is going to be a winner on looks and also efficiency, but everything else about this boat has got to look cool and be efficient too - in order to match that sail in the kids minds, even the daggerboard and rudder have got to have a little something about them. It also has to be a sit-on boat rather than a sit-in one. The basic dimensions close I have chosen are close to those of a couple of plastic mass-produced designs aimed at the young and intended for the same sort of purpose as here.

This one is the dory, or rather box shaped one that gave the highest work to flood inches figure for the two-chined hull forms.

A sampan boat is typical to South East Asian countries, where many seemingly different boat types in several countries appear under the same common name. Sampan literally means three planks.

This runabout is designed for speedy transportation over protected waters.

May be suitable for carving, woodburning (pyrography), intarsia or scrollsaw ideas.