Boats, Dories and other Watercraft

A 25 foot house boat. Be patient when downloading, images at the site are large.

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.

38 mph, $38 to build and 38 hours to build. Price does not account for inflation :-)

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.

Ever dream of building a boat? In your own backyard? We thought so. Building a boat is one of the truly great fantasies that most grown boys and girls have indulged in at one time or another. For most of us, it never gets beyond the dream.

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, Dmitry Dolinsky. Published in Power & Sail Boats magazine.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

These canoe paddles were built by laminating strips of lumber together. Follow along and see how it was done.

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

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...

This is a very nice but simple skiff, made out of two sheets of 1/4 inches or 3/8 inches plywood. This skiff is heavily based on my Portuquese Style Dinghy. I myself, and several others who have built the dinghy have been satisfied with her, so why not make a slightly larger version?

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.