18′ Catboat
If your taste runs more to the traditional, and if your building skills are correspondingly more advanced, this 18-footer by Fenwick Williams might be worth considering. She’s only slightly larger...
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24′ Gaff Yawl
Although designer Fenwick C. Williams is best know for his exquisite cruising catboats, his 24′ Gaff Yawl has proven herself to be an unusually fine combination of all the factors...
16′ Quattro Catamaran
Building plans for really good high-performance beach cats are hard to find. Here is a great one. Designed by the successful British ream of Richard and Lilian Woods, the Quattro...
18′8″ Mackinaw Boat
This boat is an historically accurate 18′ version of the well-known, reputed Mackinaw boat, a sailing and rowing shallop type that was popular on Lakes Michigan and Superior in the...
19′ Cat Schooner
While many young sailors get their start in small one-design racing classes, some kids are born cruisers, with more of Tom Sawyer than Dennis Connor in their blood. These youngsters...
25′9″ Lubec Boat
Right where the great Passamaquoddy Bay empties into the even mightier Bay of Fundy, is Lubec, Maine, the easternmost spot in the United States. This is a land of swirling...
25′10″ Sloop, Dark Harbor 17½
In 1908 B.B. Crowninshield was asked to draw up a one-design class of knockabouts to be initially know as the Manchester 17½. The class was to become one of the...
20′2″ Sloop, Dark Harbor 12½
The Dark Harbor 12½ keel sloop is a smaller, more easily handled but equally exciting version of the Dark Harbor 17½, without a cabin. This gaff-rigged daysailer, which was first...
28′ Canoe Yawl, Rozinante
In the midst of the dark years of World War II, The Rudder magazine commissioned L. Francis Herreshoff to write a how-to-build article for a design that would give war-weary...
22′ Fox Island Class Sloop
Seldom will you find a boat that combines genuine traditional good looks and modern performance. Perhaps few designers today know what traditional boats really look like, or how boats were...
20′3″ Flatfish Class Sloop
In 1986, WoodenBoat introduced the Haven 12½-footer, designer Joel White’s centerboard version of the Herreshoff 12½. These boats were so successful and the design so well received that Joel was...
13′6″ Tammie Norrie
This striking lapstrake hull is good for rowing or sailing and for work or play. Tammie Norrie comes from Iain Oughtred’s drawing table on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. 13′6″...
19′6″ Calendonia Yawl II
This rugged and striking double-ender will camp-cruise a couple and day sail a crowd. Designer Iain Oughtred admits to being under the influence of Shetland ness yoles and sixerns while...
12′6″ Tom Cat
Here we have a fine little catboat from the drawing table of William Garden. When a highly regarded designer draws a boat for his own use, the results seem worth...
16′ Catbird
This good-looking daysailer/camp-cruiser floated from Karl Stambaugh’s drawing table along the shores of Chesapeake Bay. The versatile 16-footer will take us across fairly open water and, with only 6″ draft, far...
Seaclipper 20
This friendly and capable 20′ trimaran offers good speed under sail and almost luxurious accommodations by camping standards. The little sloop will go together easily in a backyard or garage....
15′11″ Penny Fee
Penny Fee is a classic British wherry reinterpreted for glued-lapstrake construction—or, as her designer Iain Oughtred would say, clinker. This building method is well-suited to amateur construction—materials are easily obtainable,...
15′2″ Whilly Tern
Here we have a nice glued-lapstrake double-ender. It will sail and row well, and should make for an excellent camp-cruiser. Designer Iain Oughtred based this hull on the Shetland Ness...
21′ Sjogin
There’s something archetypical about Scandinavian-designed boats. They seem to speak to something inside us, whispering “I am what a boat’s supposed to look like.” This seems especially true when a...
18′3″ Sloop, Alden O-Boat
Created out of a desire to provide young sailors with able boats of their own at a reasonable price, the O-boats as a class were created in 1921. The class...