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boatbuilding.com - An index of internet sources of boat building plans.
Scout Boats Factory Tour - Unofficial site. Includes detailed photos and descriptions showing various models in all stages of construction. Factory located in Summerville, South Carolina.
Submobile - Information to assist those that might have an interest in building a small submersible submarine.
Ferroboats - Comprehensive site on the aspects of ferro-cement boats, from history to building or buying.
Concept Boat - Annual competition intended to encourage innovative small craft design. Description of contest and sponsors.
Merrell Watercraft - Boat plans and design information for amateur boat builders.
Nova Scotia Boat Builders Association - Provides members with support services and consumers with information relating to the Nova Scotia boat building industry.
The Boatbuilding Webring - Project sites as well as design resources connected in a ring.
MultihullBoatbuilder.com - Free exchange of building and design information for self/home-built multihulls.
Mini-Tugboats - Information on tug plans, construction, accessories and related links.
Amateur Boatbuilders Page - Brief introduction to materials and techniques. Project information on a 7M steel cruising sailboat.
Free Boat Design Resources - Links to articles, essays, boat design software and even a number of free small boat designs, including some from professionals.
How to Build a Submarine - Details on a college physics project to build a submarine for under $400.00.
Boat Design Forums - Discussion on boat design and boatbuilding, materials, software, powerboats, sailboats, education, and employment.
Great Encouragement to Boatwrights - Lists of boat plans and sources and books on boatbuilding, boat plans, boat designs and designing, skiffs, sharpies, canoes, dinghies, and other buildable boats.
Bolger Discussion Group - Forum focusing on the designs of Phil Bolger, including construction techniques. Registration required.
John's Nautical and Boatbuilding Page - A collection of links and articles about boatbuilding.
The Boat Shop - Online version of the PBS television program. Includes information about the show, boat plans, boatbuilding tools and tips, and related links. Also supports a message board.
Woodenboat.net.nz - New Zealand based ezine providing resources and news for home boatbuilders, owners, restorers and users of small boats. Includes boats plans cataloges, galleries and stories about small boats.
The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding - In Sausalito, California, offers a full-year apprenticeship program and short courses in traditional wooden boatmaking and associated crafts. Includes information on classes, projects, staffing, alumni, news, and school location.
Electric Boats - Parameters for efficient electric boat design. Suitable boat plans and equipment. Links to related sites.
Smallboats Discussion Group - Forum covering all aspects of small boats, including theory and design relating to performance and safety. Registration required; inappropriate for those with a sense of humor.
Tales Of A Boatbuilder Apprentice - Personal memoir of wooden boatbuilding in old-time shops.
Jet Jon - Building a shallow draft jet boat from salvaged parts. Discussion, how-to, and project details.
Chebacco News - Information and advice on building and sailing Bolger's 20' cat yawl designs.
Duckworks Magazine - Articles, columns, and homebuilding projects. By and for backyard boat builders.
Conwys Coracles - Photographs, descriptions, and history of the Coracles and Currachs of Wales and Ireland.
Russian Hydrofoil Page - Provides information about hydrofoils, methods of calculations, design service, and photo galleries.
Marineply.com - News about boatbuilding timber and industry updates, Lloyds approval news and BS1088 updates.
Cook Yacht Design - Areas of focus include offshore cruising sailboats and motorsailers, ocean racing and day racing sailboats.
Skip Hagerman's Antique Boat & Motor Mania - A large photo collection of antique, Mercury and OMC outboards motors, Race boats, and classic wooden boats. Also see an impresive historical testament to Hal Kelly and his race boat designs, and outboard racing champion, John Schubert.
ProMaritim -Boatbuilding in Asia- - ProMaritim tells you the best boat building locations in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and guides you through the building process.
Woods Designs Dinghies - Woods Designs offer a range of plans for rowing and sailing dinghies and beach catamarans for home building in plywood
messing-about.com - Resources for the amateur boat builder, including plan reviews, FAQs, rigging information and an active bulletin board open to all.
Albatross' Adventure: Building a 26' heavy-displacement Junk - Alan "Maddog!" MacBride's comprehensive, often humorous, documentation of the construction of his 26' Junk rig, Albatross. Also includes detours to Puffin, Twig and other side "procrastination" projects.
Amateur Boatbuilding - Resources, links, and discussion for the home builder. Free, downloadable plans.
Fritz's Boat Page - Boatbuilding and Boat Projects from Juneau, Alaska...and Around the World. Construction and launch photos of a Bolger Sneakeasy 26' x 4' plywood speedboat. Also includes many other boatbuilding links.
Amateur Yacht Research Society - Dedicated to finding out how to make yachting better. A resource for finding people and links to useful yacht design resources.
GHSport Reference Center - Directory of information for maritime designers, engineers, and builders.
Boat Design Net - Boat design projects, plans, marine design software, books, schools, production v-hulls and catamarans.
Van Gorkom Yacht Design and Marine Engineering - Designer of innovative, high performance sailboats including the Mount Gay 30 and hi-tech motor yacht design for cruising, offshore, and ocean racing. Providing structural marine engineering to clients, including rudder, keel, and hull refits, composite analysis, scantling development, and performance predictions.
Free Boat Plans From "Science and Mechanics" Magazines - Boat plans from Science and Mechanics and Boat Builder Handbooks. Plans for Hydroplanes, Sailboats, Inboards, Runabouts, Canoes, Kayaks and many other boats.
Worlds Most Radical Boat Designs - This site is dedicated to the designers, builders & crew of some of the worlds most advanced & unusual and futuristic boat/marine designs.
Irrotational plane flows of an inviscid fluid - A great lecture for those who need a refresher course on some hydrodynamics fundamentals.
Publications at AME'98 (Australian Maritime Engineering) - On line Publications at AME'98; a good list of papers covering some elements of yacht performance and design
Computational methods for investigating sail forces A case study - Computational methods for investigating sail forces - A case study
NACA Technical Report Server - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - an incredible compilation of papers (they are old, but much of this is still in use today)
AeroHydro - Marine design with Relational Geometry, collection of other tools such as a VPP, Hydrostatics and Plate expansion applications.
Vacanti Yacht Design - The program PROLINES has been used to design everything from model sailboats to tugboats. The keel and rudder design software has been used extensively on winning racing yachts world wide.
Formation Design Systems - Developers of CAD software for naval architecture and structural engineering and industrial design. Maxsurf is one of the most powerful tools available, for the design of small or very large projects.
Wolfson Unit MTIA - The Wolfson Unit offers a comprehensive set of design and performance prediction tools. Their design tool, ShipShape, is aimed at advanced users and gives the designer an incredible amount of control over the final hull form. No demos.
AeroLogic - AeroLogic - Personal Simulation Works, Desktop CFD. Some interesting tools here, both for planes and boats.
Autoship - Ship design software for the largest projects - from general design to building.
Newavesys - Collection of simple packages for the design & performace prediction of boats (mostly small craft).
Blue Peter Marine Systems - Free downloads and full version hull design software programs.
Hydrocomp Inc. - Design marine software products including performance prediction, propeller selection, and propeller CAD modeling software.
Aerodynamics Software for Sailboat Appendages - SailingAerodynamics, a software package for computing the lift and drag acting on keels, rudders and fins. 3-D aerodynamics design and analysis software also analyzes airfoils.
Building a Sport Boat - Step by step building of a 26 foot aluminum racing sailboat, a DIDI 26.
John's Boat Page - Step by step details of the design and construction of a 15' radius chine plywood steam launch.
Building a tack and tape rowboat. - Detailed descriptions and photos.
Charlie's Web Page - Features information about plans for a child sized powerboat for building at home with adult help. Age range from 6 years upwards. Engine size 2hp+.
Porter Wooden Boat Building - Work logs and pictures of home boat building projects, including Devlin's 18' plywood sloop Winter Wren.
Mike Stockstill's Boats - One builder's projects and musings, focusing on Bolger's plywood designs.
Building the GP-16 - One builder's experience building a Brewer and Betts plywood outboard design.
Homeboatbuilding - Offers details and photos of Ron Galli's Trinity, a home-built steel 61' sail boat. Includes a list of home boat builders and photos of their boats, building tips, and message board.
Project Just Right - Building the Vagabond Plus 20 foot plywood trailerable sailboat.
Mark V Designs - Pictures and commentary on building a 39 foot outboard powered Sharpie houseboat, and a 20 foot trailerable plywood power cruiser.
Decavitator - History, specifications, manufacturing methods and other information related to a human-powered hydrofoil.
Boat Floor Replacement - Replacing a floor in a 1970 Silverline runabout.Photos,description, etc.
Steve's Wing Dinghy Website - Details the construction and, eventually, the sailing of the Wing Dinghy, a 12' sailing dinghy designed to be built from scratch using plans by Stevenson Projects.
V12 Sailing Dinghy - Description of the project, and plywood - epoxy construction. Index of boat building techniques and information.
Building Toad Hall - A 17' wooden revenue yawl, built for the ice. Based on W.P. Stephens' 1883 design, "the smallest possible yawl which would give reasonable cruising accommodation for two..." Links to the builder's shop and building tips.
RUTU, a 45' Performance Sailboat - The ongoing saga of building a 45' composite sheathed cedar strip sailboat in the back yard and the quest to make it sail fast, save money and not look home made.
A-Class Catamaran Build - Documents "tortured plywood" construction techniques used in the construction of an A-class racing catamaran. This personal site demonstrates a number of engineering projects and features links to Carnegie Mellon University.
Building a Bolger Long Micro - Small plywood cruising sailboat. Builder's rationale for selecting a design, detailed construction photos.
Ithaca - The Yacht - Argentinian woman who built her own sailing boat, a 34 foot steel sloop. Step by step photographs of construction. In Spanish and Portuguese. Next project: sailing around the world.
Conversion of a trawler into a yacht - Conversion of a 48' plank on frame commercial salmon fishing boat into a yacht. Photos and descriptions.
thegreatsea - Building Double Eagle, a Bolger designed 40' x 20' plywood catamaran, with a Chinese gaff rig.
Sailing Vessel Sergeant Lewis - Photos of the construction and launch of a big plywood/composite trimaran.
Snake Shooter Vee - Welded aluminum 20' jet sled (Inboard center console version). Construction Photos.
Jim's Place - Photos of Bolger's Diablo, Uncle John's six hour Cajun canoe. Description of vacuum bagging technique.
Turbine Boat Project - Contains details of a backyard-built turbine boat.
Building Galene - Facts and reflections on building a 41' offshore voyaging sailboat from a bare hull.
Building The Haven 12 1/2 - Of, by and for amateur builders of Joel White's Haven 12 1/2 sailboat. Descriptions of multiple projects, construction details, contact information
Herkimer & Perkins: Building Boats in& of Buffalo, NY - Building The Weekend Skiff and a shantyboat in Buffalo, NY. Building logs, bibliography, and links.
Tehani - 38' Aluminum Sloop - Construction details and photos. Hull and deck were professionally built; owner is doing the interior woodworking, electrical, and plumbing.
Lynx 16 Pocket Cruiser - Plywood/epoxy construction of this Paul Fisher design.
Crip's Boat Pages - Directory and links to boat building and restoration projects, mostly in wood.
The Floating Bear - A Stevenson 12' plywood MiniCup, a Herb McLeod One Sheet Skiff, and a modified bateau.com inspired pirogue. Detailed descriptions, photos, and costs.
Roberts 434 steel sailboat - A 43ft steel sloop, started in Spring 2002. Detailed progress reports and photos.
Building a Modern Composite Catamaran - Advertisement for a CD, which provides detailed information on this backyard project.
The Boatyard - Construction and sailing of a modified Stevenson Projects 19' plywood "Weekender". Includes progress journal, photos, and expense log.
Ed's Scow - The adventure of one man building a simple boat in his garage.
Wooden Canoe - 14' stitch-and-glue open kayak, built from (free) bateau.com plans, of two sheets of plywood. Construction photos.
Building FLAME - a Pirat dinghy - Pirat class sailing dinghy, of plywood and epoxy resin. Construction photos and practical tips for hobby boat builders.
Sneakeasy Katie - Bolger's Sneakeasy, a 26'x4' powerboat with classic lines. Construction photos and study plans.
Fram F-39 trimaran - Building an Ian Farrier F-39 trimaran using epoxy composite construction, with vacuum bagging and infusion technique. photos and description of this ongoing project.
BobCat Restoration Project - Repair of a Bolger BobCat wood/epoxy catboat. Photos and construction diary.
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding - Teaching and preserving fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts. Information on programs, courses, and events; listing of boats for sale.
East River Apprenticeshop - Teaching conservation and leadership to inner city youth through boat building and seamanship. Description of programs, contact information.
The International Boatbuilding Training college - In Oulton Broad, on the East Coast of the UK, and providing practical, intensive, courses where students learn the art of traditional boatbuilding and related skills. Course descriptions and photos.
International Yacht Restoration School - Purpose is to teach the skills, history, science and art of restoring, maintaining and building classic yachts, to preserve the knowledge, heritage, craftsmanship and aesthetic genius inherent in these yachts, and to maintain a fleet of restored watercraft for the purpose of teaching. Located in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design - The Landing School offers state-of-the boatbuilding, yacht design and marine systems technicians programs in Kennebunk, Maine.
Urban Boatbuilders - We offer boat building classes, experiential education, youth development and on-the-water activities in an urban setting. Evening classes for adults on boat building, traditional boat building methods, oars, paddles, full-sized boats, half-hulls, models, and rocking boats/cradle boats. Located in Minneapolis/St. Paul MN.

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