Boats, Dories and other Watercraft

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.

15 foot. Large picture files to download so be patient.

Flat bottom cajun style boat. DXF Format

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.

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.

The idea for this pram came to me as I sat in the shade beside the dock of a small Breton port in late summer. A small boy not much older than my six-year-old son was playing in a round-bilged little simulated clinker pram; he was an expert at rowing and sculling and he seemed to be having a grand time.

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.

There were three or four nice designs in the book, a small sailing boat, an outboard lobster boat and a dory, whose lines caught and pleased my eye. The dory was the Bolger Light Dory, or Gloucester Gull. I made a note of the important measurements of the dory. Not many were needed: the side patterns, three bottom widths and the mid frame measurements. Then I forgot about the thing. Then one day...

This is a one sheet version of the same punt, adjusted to be made of just one sheet of plywood. As it happens, the boat scales down very nicely. The overall shape is conserved beautifully. Both length and beam are 3/4 of the original, so the L/B ratio is the same, about 2.2.

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.

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 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.

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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.

I am just waiting for the day when I become a grandfather. From that day on I will have a good reason to build things like this.

Want a utility or racing boat?

A motorized paddle wheel flat bottomed boat.

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

The character and object of this book are set forth on its title page. It is a manual designed for the practical assistance of those who wish to build their own canoes.

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.

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. 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.

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

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!

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

An 11 foot outboard. Images are large so be patient when downloading.

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

A 9 foot 6 inch rowboat. Be patient when downloading from this host site, images are large.