Boat plans

Online boating Rules of the Road quiz 60 second challenge

Proven boat designs, and how-to information for boat building. Boat plans are for beginners and have been built by thousands since 1953.

A Kiwi designed folding powerboat with a North Shore link will be making waves at this year’s Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show.

This is the Rosebud tiny houseboat. It's a mini tug trawler boat that you can live tiny in if you wanted. Even though this is probably a little too tiny for most, would you ever seriously consider living in

Video of the 23ft Dayboat smooth action in significant chop in the Hawkesbury River Estuary wind against tide. Easy building with flat bottom.

Proafile - multihull design concepts and review

Crispy 650 is an open motorboat of 6,5m roomy, light, sturdy, seaworthy, with a range of elegible engines to make sure your wallet won't sink purchasing it.

If you tend to take yourself too seriously, here’s a boat that can fix that. Paul Elkins’s Little Miss Sally is an electric micro-boat for which whimsy is as essential to its operation as its 12-volt battery. I first saw the boat on a YouTube video. In it, Paul slides her out of the back of his pick-up truck. A man with a horseshoe...

Tom Whitfield has been my long distance mentor ever since I began building and writing about building boats. He lives as far away as possibl...