Typically, builders spend some time with a variety blueprints, before settling on a design to build. The various designers choose how they sell their blueprints, either keeping it in-house or using resellers such as WoodenBoat and Duckworks.

Each designer chooses how complete he wants to make the kit. All include building moulds and planks; some include many more parts and patterns. A picture of the parts included in each kit is found under the dropdown list for each designer.

There is not any one thing that is technically difficult, just many small steps, eachone important and affecting the next one. Reading plans, doing your research andknowing when to ask questions is more important than the woodworking ability. The plans from the various designers include the necessary information to build the boat, but won’t teach you how to be a boatbuilder. Two instruction books that I recommend are Iain Oughtred’s ‘Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual’ and the very comprehensive John Brooks ‘How to Build Glued Lapstreak Wooden Boats’. The instructional videos from OffCenterHarbor.com are invaluable in walking you through each step, particularly the 42 parts series on building the Caledonia Yawl.

Table saw, chop saw, cordless drill, sharp hand planes and chisels, jig saw, and an assortment of hand tools.

Kits are made from Bruynzeel and Joubert French manufactured 1088 okoume plywood. This is the best okoume plywood that we have found.

Sapele plywood will add several weeks to the delivery date and more than double the material cost. As of July 2021, we cannot get Philippine meranti plywood.

No, we are specifically prohibited from altering a designer’s work, without their express written consent.

Yes, we have signed agreements with all of our designers and pay royalties on all kits sold. We have no ‘in-house’ designs.

No, we have not found it cost effective to have long lengths of lumber shipped to us and then shipped out to the customer. Most builders can locally source their own lumber. We have on occasion sourced the lumber, but for most kits, I do not have enough information to supply the lumber.

Yes.

No.

Four weeks on a standard kit.

You can call in a credit card, mail us a check, or arrange a bank wire transfer.

No sales tax is charged on orders shipped out of state by common carrier (freight orUPS) Orders shipped within state or picked up at our shop are accessed a 5.5% Maine sales tax.

We are specifically prohibited by license from sharing the designer’s CAD drawings with another party.

We list every Oughtred kit that has been worked up into CAD drawings. If it is a Vivier kit that is listed on his website, we can cut it. We do not cut the Ilur, Morbic, or Jewell, as another machinist holds the exclusive license for those designs.

We cannot machine parts from paper prints. They need to be turned into CAD drawings, which is possible, but not inexpensive.