Boats

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.

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.

Mouse started life as a one-sheeter, that is, an exercise to develop the smallest, cheapest possible boat. As a result, it is not a boat to which you can safely trust your life in any sort of waves - as anyone who climbs into a Mouse will quickly realize.

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.

Building wood, reclining water transportation, includes materials and tools list, diagrams. ...

The Qivitoq is an Inuit-style Sea Kayak, and was heavily based on native design. The original inspiration came from the Chewonki Kayak. That article and others on Greenland type kayaks were the foundation.

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

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

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 is a miniature version of the same punt, adjusted to be made of one and a half sheets of plywood. Or two boats out of three sheets. As it happens, the boat scales down very nicely. The overall shape is conserved beautifully.

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.

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

This free woodworking plans and woodworking projects page is courtesy of the Meliz Crafts web site.

So you have always wanted your own canoe? Here is how to build it.

The humblest boat in the collection is definitely boat number 11 on plate 48, the Ekstock. This boat is also the only one with a flat bottom, flat sides and flat transoms. Ekstock is Swedish for punt, literally oak log. So the boat is a traditional Scandinavian punt.

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.

A super speedster.

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

A motorized paddle wheel flat bottomed boat.

This little gem is from a 1948 edition of Boat Builder is Annual.

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!

9 ft 6 in Flat. Large images to download, be patient.

A 11 foot 10 inch flat. Large images to download, be patient.

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

Be patient when downloading, images at the site are large.

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

The genesis of this design grew out of my experience with my Michalak Sportdory. Sportdory is a wonderful rowing boat, but it is a little too long and heavy to be car-topped easily. It is also a little too tiddly for fishing to be relaxing.

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

By Paul Butler - First-time boat builder? Try this easy project over a weekend.