The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 16 of 47

The Mother of All Maritime Links
John's Nautical Links List
Page 16 of 47

Ships in harbor

Contents

Search

New or Changed Links Hand pointing right

Designers, Plans & Kits A to M:: 16' McKenzie River Driftboat Plans and Construction Manual (From Altair Industries); 3DNav Boat Design (Design and engineering for sport and professional boats, sail and motor, for shipyards and individual builders, Pontevedra, Spain)
A 65 Foot Sailing Catamaran Design by Tim Dunn: Ace Marine Ltd. (Low Cost naval architecture bureau service, stability curves & structural assessment, stabilty books, computer modeling of hulls from offsets, photographs or sketches); ACRU TechnologY (Designer of a system to eliminate heel in sailboats); Adirondack Guide Boat (Wood or Kevlar Adirondack guideboat kits); Advanced Multihull Designs (AMD, high speed passenger and vehicle ferries); AeroMarine Research (Tunnel boat design books and software); AES (Sailing yacht mast and rigging design and engineering, Auckland, New Zealand); AES Rig Design Hints; The Albert Strange Association (Tracing and preserving the designs and making a permanent record of his life and work); Alkira Boatshed (Stock plans and custom design of timber and steel steamboats, cruisers, yachts and launches, Toronto, New South Wales); Almarine GmbH (Metal motor and sailing yacht designs and kits, Switzerland); Alucraft Boat Builders and Designers (Aluminum and steel vessels of any type and purpose, precut aluminum boat kits); The Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS); Antonio Dias Design; Antrim Associates Naval Architects (Sail and power, mono and multihull, El Sobrante, California); Applegate Boatworks (Plans for taped seam plywood boats); Applied Concepts Unleashed, Inc. (Sportfishing boats, motoryachts); Arch Davis Design (Plywood/epoxy designs); Architectura Navalis Mercatoria (The 1765 book by Frederik Hendrik af Chapman online); Argo Marine Engineering (Aluminum boats for commercial use, plus articles about the design of planing boats); Art Anderson Associates (Naval architects and marine engineering); Art's Nautical Wood Works (Cedar strip canoes, kayaks, rowboats & sailboats, Bellingham, Washington); ArvelGentry.com (Technical papers and articles about sailing aerodynamics and fluid dynamics); Atkin & Co. ("Individualized designs for unregimented yachtsmen," by William and John Atkin); AussieCat Catamaran Design and Development (Power catamarans); Autocanoe Company (Plans for a pedal powered amphibious recumbent tricycle and a roadable pedal canoe, Port Townsend, Washington); The Backyard Boatbuilding 2 Mailing List (Discussion about George Buehler's boats and those of other designers that also advocate simple boats that are "Hell for Stout"); The Back Yard Yacht Club (Stevenson Projects easy-build boat plans); Bakewell-White Yacht Design (Custom designs for performance sailing and motor yachts, New Zealand); The Barrow Boat Company (Kits for clinker built sailing dinghies and rowing boats with wheels); Bartender Boats (Plans and kits for George Calkins designed Bartender planing V-bottom double-enders); B & B Yacht Designs (Canoes & kayaks, rowboats, beach cruisers, multihulls, motorboats and sailing yachts); Bear Mountain Boat Shop (Canoe and kayak plans, run by Ted Moores, co-author of Canoe Craft); The Benford Design Group (Jay R. Benford); The Bill Garden Boats Discussion Forum; Bill Garden Yacht Designs (Information, images, histories and stories about boats designed by William Garden, naval architect); Björn Thomasson Design (Canoe, kayak and small boat designs for amateur builders, Sweden); Blubay Yachts (Large motor and sailing yachts, catamarans); Boat Builder Central (Plans, kits & building materials); The Boatdesign Mailing List (Discussing topics of interest to designers and builders of small, low-cost boats up to 20ft, usually for cruising and other non-competitive purposes); Boat Design Net (Links to plans, software, books); Boat Design Quarterly; Boat Inventions (A dozen forgotten inventions for watercraft); Boatloft cc (Maritime engineers specializing in powered catamaran design, South Africa); Boat Plans from Yachting Monthly (Small cruising boats by Maurice Griffiths from the UK magazine, at the Eventide Owners Association); Boat Speed Calculators (Excel spreadsheets to calculate the speed of power boat designs); Bob Ames Naval Architecture, Inc. (Sailboat design services); Boden Boat Plans (Wooden and metal boats for amateur builders, Cremorne, New South Wales); The Bolger's Boats Mailing List; Bolton Profiles Ltd. (Stock and custom metal boat kits, UK); Bray Yacht Design and Research (Dinghies, sailboats, motorsailers and powerboats); Brooks Boats (Plans for glued-lapstrake boats by John Brooks, Mount Desert, Maine); Bruce Roberts Designs; Bryan Boatbuilding (Wooden boat plans by Harry Bryan, Letete, New Brunswick); The Bulgarian Ship Hydrodynamics Centre (National research and development institute doing fundamental and applied research in ship and offshore hydrodynamics, coastal hydraulics, aerodynamics, environment, water transport and information technology); Burnett Yacht Design (Traditional and modern cruising sailboats & motor yachts); Buzzcraf Electric Boats (Plans for small electric boats); By-The-Sea's Plan and Kit Sellers Listing; The CAD Block Exchange Network (Free online AutoCAD block/symbol library); Cajun Secret (Small boat and pirogue plans); Camarc Design (Fast patrol and pilot boats, RIBs, research vessels, ferries and yachts, Shoreham, Sussex); Captain Jack Ross, General Marine Consultants (Planning, design and permitting of docks, terminals and marine structures of all types, towboat and barge operations, marina design and recreational boating); Captain Jim Shotwell's James Craft Marine Services, Inc. (Chris-Craft kit boats, Nescopeck, Pennsylvania); Carlson Boatworks (Design and construction of wooden speedboats); Carpe Diem Yacht Design (Sail & power, up to 40 meters); Cassidy Boat Service (Motorboat kits featuring Talon hulls and deck plans, British Columbia); The Catboat Association's List of Popular Lines & Designs; Charlie's Gizmo (Plans for a high performance lightweight speedboat designed for young people); The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's Historic Bay Boat Plans; Chesapeake Light Craft, Inc. (Kayak, canoe & small boat plans and kits); Chesapeake Marine Design (Karl Stambaugh); Chesapeake Rowing (Rowing shell kits); Chippendale Craft & Tyrone Boats (Plywood and strip canoe, boat & sailing canoe kits, Rye, East Sussex); Choy Designs (Multihull luxury yachts); Chris White Designs (Cruising multihulls); Chuck Paine and Associates (Custom sail and motor yachts, Camden, Maine); CKD Boats (CNC cut sailboat kits, kit development, Cape Town, South Africa); Clark Craft (Plans and kits); Classic Boatworks of Maine (Plans from the 40s thru the 60s available for the cost of copying); Common Sense Boats (Easy to build boats from Phil Bolger, Jerry Estes, Warren C. Bailey and others); Competitive Concepts (Europe) Ltd. (Designers of high-speed ferries); Compumarine (Cedar strip small craft designs for amateur builders); Computer Design Marine (Aluminium power pleasure & workboat kits 4-20 meters); Concept Boat (Design contest sponsored by the British Marine Industries Federation); concept.pg (Cruising yacht designs by Peter Gallinelli, Geneva, Switzerland); C. Raymond Hunt Associates, Inc.; Custom Pontoon Boat Kits etc. (Aluminum boat kits from 10-59', Springfield, Ohio); The Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library at Mystic Seaport (100,000 sheets of original plans for vessels of all kinds, from L. Francis Herreshoff, Phil Rhodes, Pete Culler, Albert Condon, Starling Burgess, and many other well-known designers); Daniel Z. Bombigher (Designer of classic style schooners, Cannes, France); DataBoat International (Boat plans from several designers); Dave Carnell's $200 Sailboat; David Greening Yacht Design (Yacht surveys, design, naval architecture and recreational craft directive (RCD) consultancy based in the southern UK); David Payne Yacht Design (Traditional or contemporary designs and stock plans for the amateur or professional builders, Mosman, New South Wales); Davidson and Company Ltd. (Naval Architects to Team New Zealand); Design and Construction of Centerboards and Rudders (Essay on hydrodynamic foils); Designing PlusPlus ++ (A new single handed 14' racing skiff class); Devlin Designing Boat Builders (Stitch and glue boat plans); D. H. Kurylko Yacht Design (Specializing in classic designs for beach cruising and long distance voyaging under oar and sail); Dick Newick (Trimaran, catamaran & proa designs); The Diesel Ducks Home Page (Official Home of Diesel Duck & other George Buehler designed cruising powerboats); D. Koopmans Naval Architects (Dutch designers of cruising and cruising/racing sailboats, metal boat kits); D. N. Hylan & Associates (Sail and motorboats, West Brooklin, Maine); Don Hill River Boats (McKenzie River drift boat plans and kits. Eugene, Oregon); Doriak Designs (Wood/epoxy RIBs by George Kurzman); Duck Flat Wooden Boats; Ducktrap Woodworking (Traditional Maine lapstrake boat plans from W. J. Simmons); The Duckworks Boat Plan Index (An index of boats, plans, pictures, articles on the internet); Dudley Dix Yacht Design (Fiberglass, steel, radius chine plywood boats, Virginia Beach, Virginia); E. G. Duarte & Associates (Naval architecture, marine engineering, marine chemist, fluid storage/salvage bladders, project management, The Online Naval Architect); Elliott Marine (Racing yachts and performance cruising sailboats by Greg Elliott); Emubo (Plans for easily assembled plywood proas, sailing canoes and sailboats by Florian Franz, Denmark); The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers; Erik Lerouge Yacht Designs (Cruising sailboats); Expedition Yachts International (Complete naval architecture, marine engineering, specification development, consulting, and project management); FairMetal Boats (North American agent for Denis Ganley Steel and plywood boat plans and pre-cut metal kits for home builders, Ann Arbor, Michigan); Farrier Marine Inc. (Ian Farrier multihull designs); Farr Yacht Design Ltd. (Racing and cruising sailboats); FCS Design (Cruising yacht designs, engineering services, design renovations); Finnboat's Index of Finnish Designers and Surveyors; The Flapdoodle Dinghy (A rigid hardwood and ply 8' folding dinghy by Bill Weller); Flaquita (Tacking proa for homebuilders designed by Joe Henry); Fontaine Design Group (Sail and motoryachts, Providence, Rhode Island); Fralick Boats (Stock outboard hydroplane race boat plans); The Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum (Holds many Nathaniel G. Herreshoff plans, MIT); Francois Vivier Architecte Naval (Traditionally styled wooden sailboats, rowboats and launches, France); Free Boat Design Resources On The Internet (Essays and tutorials); Fyne Boat Kits (Rowing boat, sailing boat, kayak & canoe kits, accessories, Coniston in the English Lake District); Gator Bayou Boat Works (Plans for wooden Louisiana "swamp boats"); George Buehler Yacht Design; Gerrie Warner's 12' Viking Canoe Plans; Gerr Marine (Dave Gerr, designer of yachts and commercial vessels, New York); Gibbs & Cox, Inc. (Naval architecture and marine engineering company working primarily on naval vessels); GLEN-L Marine (Boat plans, kits, and supplies); Graham Radford Yacht Design (Monohull sailing yachts, steel and aluminum boat kits, Brookvale, New South Wales); Great Encouragement to Boatwrights (Boat plan sources); Green Valley Boat Works (John Winters' canoe and kayak plans); Greg Carlson's Folding Kayak Plans; Gregory C. Marshall Naval Architect Ltd. (Luxury motor and sailing yachts, Victoria, British Columbia); Greg Tatman Wooden Boats (McKenzie River driftboat and rowboat plans and kits); Groupe Finot, Architectes Navals (Cruising and racing sailboats, Mini-Transat boats); Guillemot Kayaks (Nick Schade's high performance wooden sea kayak plans for do-it-yourselfers); Gutschwing^™ Gravity Powered Canting Ballast Keel Systems For Sail Boats; G. W. Jones & Associates (Design and construction consulting services to the marine, oil & gas and power industry, Houma, Louisiana); Hakan Sodergren Yacht Design (Racing boats, high performance cruisers, family powerboats for the Scandinavian waters); Harland & Wolff (Design & engineering for the offshore industry, Belfast, Northern Ireland); Harold H. Payson & Co. (Dynamite Payson, "Home of the original Instant Boats"); Harryproa (Plans & kits for Harry, Harrigami & Visionarry cruising proas designed by Rob Denney, Australia); Hartley & Brookes Associates (Plans for home boatbuilders, New Zealand); Hartley Trimaran Designs (Cruising sailboats); The H. C. Hanson Naval Architecture Collection (A collection of plans, photographs, periodicals and other assorted materials detailing the life and work of Harold Cornelius Hanson, Pacific Northwest designer of commercial watercraft); Headland Boats (Sailing skiff and other small boat plans by Michael Roberts, Manly, Queensland); Heiwa Co. (Ship safety, building project and ship management audit consultants, developer of the Coulombi Egg tanker design, Beausoleil, France); The Herreshoff Marine Museum (Holds many Nathaniel G.Herreshoff plans, Bristol, Rhode Island); Hobbycraft Kayaks (Li'l Beauty kayak plans); Humberto Martinez's Yacht Design Links; Hytek Marine (Development, design and engineering for boats and ships up to 50 meters, drawings and tech support for classic yacht restoration, Denmark); The i550 (High performance sportboat for amateur builders); I. K. MacLeod & Associates, Naval Architects & Marine Surveyors (New build, alterations, stability books, lines drawings, tonnage measurement, inclining experiments, insurance damage and marine surveys of one kind or another, Scotland); An Index to Jim Michalak's Newsletters and Plans; Innovations in IACC Keel Design (Paper by Philip Carter the Condor Keel for racing sailboats, in particular the International America's Cup Class, which marries multi-element foil sections & planar winglets); International Marine Designs (Tenders, motor launches, Essex smack yacht, Wales); International Metal Yachts Design (Designs and kits for sailing and motor yachts in aluminum, steel & wood/epoxy); Inverted Vee Bottom Boats - the Start of a Revolution (Hickman sea sleds and their variants); IRISoft Yacht (Representing Plessis-Marin Yacht Design in the Benelux); Island Design (Power catamarans); Island Engineering (Design engineering in support of advanced marine vehicles like hydrofoils); Italstyle (A group of young Italian naval designers providing futuristic and classical designs for all kinds of boats, Genoa); Iver C. Franzen, Naval Architect (Yachts, commercial vessels, historical vessels); Jacques Mertens' Boat Plans Online (Plans for stitch 'n' glue boats, books and boat kits); Jacques Chevallard Yacht Designer (Stock plans & custom design for sail & power, all materials); James Wharram Designs; JARCAT Catamaran Designs (Plywood cruising cats, some trailerable); Jean-François Andre (Large sailing yachts); Jeff Schionning Multihull Designs (Sailing catamarans); JEM Watercraft (Canoe, kayak and boat plans for amateur builders); Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc. (Naval architecture and marine engineering, Seattle); Jens Trapp and Robert Zores' Online NACA Foil Shape Generator; Jerry Mathieu Custom Skiffs (Stock and custom skiff designs, simple or elegant, Westport, Massachusetts); Jim Michalak's Boat Plans Catalog (Small boats for amateur construction); The Jim Michalak's Boats Mailing List
Jim Michalak's Online Boat Design and Boatbuilding Newsletter (Twice a month): Johan Journée (Articles, lecture notes and other information on ship hydrodynamics); John Hesp Designs (Strip planked, composition & steel traditional style sailing cruiser designs with roots in the 19th century gaff cutters of the Westcountry); John Holtrop's Boat Stuff (Boat designs and a variety of technical articles on small boats and their design); John J. Mcmullen Associates, Inc. (JJMA, ship design, naval architecture, marine engineering, systems engineering, information & environmental services); John Perry Designs and Builds a 15' Dinghy for Cruising; John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs Ltd. (Multihulls, power and sail); The John Welsford's Boats Mailing List; John Welsford Small Craft Design (Small boats for amateur construction); John Welsford's Boat Plans Catalog (At Duckworks Magazine); Jonathan Quinn Barnett Ltd. (Yacht designer, Seattle); Jones Boats (Plywood boat designs for amateur builders by Thomas Firth Jones); Jordan Boats (Custom plywood boat kits, plywood plank and frame cutting service, Cowdenbeath, Fife); Jordan Wood Boats (Plans for small boats, cradle boats); JP's Dream (Cruising the seas aboard an assymetrical Aerorigged^® catamaran); J. R. Godwin Dinghy Design (Stitch & glue designs for amateur builders, New Zealand); J. Simpson Ltd. Marine Designers and Consultants (Steel, aluminum & fiberglass sail, power, recreational, charter, passenger and fishing boats); Jutson Yacht Design (Sydney, Australia); The Kamm Rig High Speed Sail (High efficiency sail design for racing); Kasten Marine Design (Steel and aluminum cruising boats, power and sail); Kaufman Design inc. (Naval architecture, yacht design, engineering and marine expert services, 20' wooden runabout kit); K-designs (Wing in ground effect and multihull vessels by B. Kohler); Keith Callaghan (The trailer-sailer Blue Lightning and other performance sailboats); Kel Comp (NACA Airfoils shareware foil plotting program); Kelsall Catamarans (18-75'); Ken Freivokh Design (Motor boats, sailing yachts, private jets and specialised road vehicles, Fareham, Hampshire); Kenneth Slack's Spray Plans (Joshua Slocum's famous sloop, drawn by author of In the Wake of the Spray); Kilburn Adams Boat Designs (The SkiffAmerica 20 plywood cruising powerboat); Kingfisher Electric Boats (Electric fishing kayak plans and kits, Brookings, Oregon); Kismet Multihull Dezines (Catamarans, trimarans & kayaks for the home builder); Kitboats.co.nz (Stock and custom boat kits, large and small, New Zealand); Kurt Hughes Sailing Designs (Catamarans and trimarans); Laughing Loon Custom Canoes & Kayaks (Plans and kits for strip-built canoes and kayaks, Jefferson, Maine); Lasico Planimeters and Digitizers; Laurent Giles (Sailing yacht and powercraft designs); Leo Lazauskas' Hydrodynamics Page (Several good papers on the hydrodynamics of rowing shells, kayaks and multihulls); Lewis Boat Works (Free and low-cost plans for flat bottom jon-boats, skiffs and pirogues); Lidgard Yacht Design (Custom sailboats & powerboats both mono hull & multihull, Australia); Macduff Ship Design Ltd. (Fishing and commercial vessel design and consultation, Macduff, Aberdeenshire); McGowan Marine Design, Inc. (Commercial fishing boats, pleasure boats, small energy efficient sail and human powered boats by Laurie McGowan, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia); McKenzie River Drift Boats (McKenzie River drift boat kits, Vida, Oregon); MacNaughton Associates (Yacht and commercial boat design, stock plans, kits); Marigraph Design & Solutions (Graphical presentation of ships using 3-D computer models for ship yards, yacht designers, naval architects, shipping companies, and maritime organizations); MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, hydrodynamics research, performance predictions, design consultancy, testing services and simulation and training consultancy); Marine Concepts (Fiberglass boat design, plugs, molds, prototyping and testing); Marine Timbers (Kits for small plywood boats, Seaford, Australia); Mark Smaalders Yacht Designs (Traditional style cruising sailboats for home builders); Mark V Designs (Sharpie houseboat, trailerable power cruiser); MDA Marine Design Associates Ltd. (Design consulting and drafting services, to include naval architectural, mechanical and electrical engineering for all types of vessels, both commercial and government, Victoria, British Columbia); Merrell Watercraft (Designs for amateur builders, including houseboats); The Metal Boat Society ("A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, design, and building of metal boats"); Michael Peters Yacht Design (Fast motorboats); Michael Porter, Marine Design (Motorboat design, systems engineering, consulting, Chebeague Island, Maine); Michael Storer Design (Lightweight, high performance wooden boats of traditional appearance for amateur construction); Michael Storer's Boatplans Blog; Midwest Engineering (Plans for 1 and 2 man homebuilt subs, a scuba scooter, hydrophone, and underwater camcorder housing); Mike Waller Yacht Design (Stock plans for amateur builders and custom monohull and multihull designs, Australia); Mills Design (Mark Mills' medium/light displacement racing and cruising sailboat designs); Morrelli & Melvin Yacht Design & Engineering (design and engineering of racing catamarans, catamaran ferries and catamaran work boats/supply boats, Huntington Beach, California); The Multihull Builders & Design WebRing; Murray G. Peterson Associates (Marine design company founded by naval architect Murray Peterson, featuring his designs and designs from K. Aage Nielsen and Fenwick Williams, South Bristol, Maine); Murray Isles Design (Commercial and pleasure boats up to 40 metres for oar, sail and power using one, two or sometimes three hulls, many for amateur construction, marine technology work); Mystic Seaport's Index to Vessel Designs in The Rudder, 1891-1950; (Many one-design classes also offer plans and kits for sale)

Top of This Page