Designs for You to Build, or Just For Interest The designs on this page have all been built and most have been paddled. Each has my honest comments on how they were to build and handle with suggested improvements based on my experience. Only my own designs are here, the sailboat (Dace) design is from Paul Ricelli, a boat designer in Florida. He was very helpful, the design package was detailed and the cost was reasonable; if you Google his name and the term boat designs you should find his web page and contact information.
I am not a professional boat designer and I do not have professional quality applications for creating drawings, but hopefully there is enough information below for you to build of of my designs .
. . . this page is a work in progress . . .
Downloadable Design Files These files show the designs of the first three boats featured in this site. You can download Free!Ship free, just Google it and select your source. There are at least two versions available, I use Vn. 2.6, an early but adequate version, to ensure anybody can use my files, but there are later versions you can use if you wish. You don't need these files to build one of my boat designs, but you may wish to make changes to a design before proceeding, or you may just be interested.
For building instructions just follow the build sequence documented in one of the three canoe building pages