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John's Nautical Links List
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Designers, Plans & Kits N to Z:

The Newfound Woodworks, Inc. (Strip-planked canoe, kayak and boat plans and kits)

New Wave Catamarans (Australian designer and builder of high speed aluminium power catamarans)

Nigel Irens Design (Shoal draft cruising luggers, cruising cutters, power and sailing multihulls)

Nils Andersson's Sailing Designs (International Offshore Class racer, etc.)

Noah's Marine Supply (Bear Mountain canoe & kayak plans & kits)

Northwest Marine Design (Stock & custom yacht and small boat designs for the amateur & professional builder)

Northwoods Canoe Company (Wooden canoe kits, plans, by Rollin Thurlow)

Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering (Designers of articulated tug/barge units)

Odyssey Boat Kits (Preassembled kit for a 15 1/2' Swampscott dory, Camano Island, Washington)

OldMarineEngine.com's Boat Plans (Boats suitable for early inboard power from Weston Farmer and other old sources)

One Ocean Kayaks (Designs and construction info and tips for high performance wooden sea kayaks)

The OrigamiPlyBoat Design Repository Mailing List (Photos, files & links regarding OrigamiDesign in general, with special attention for plywood and composite building)

Orion Yachting (Wood and fiberglass boat design, Göcek-Fethiye, Turkey)

Owlers' Craft (Lapstrake kit-boats and plans for home construction by Per Corel)

Parker Marine Enterprises (Reuel Parker, custom designs and stock plans for cold-molded wood, plywood, traditional wood, aluminum and steel construction)

Paul Gartside Ltd. (Boatbuilder and designer, Shelburne, Nova Scotia)

Pedal-Power Afloat (Designs by Philip Thiel, NA, Seattle)

Percy Blandford's Designs (An onofficial catalog of plans for rowing, sailing & power boats, as well as kayaks and other small craft)

Peter Kerr Design (Aluminium and composite sailing and power catamarans for DIY and professional builders, Gunalda, Queensland)

Philip Goode, A.M.R.I.N.A., I.Eng. (Design consultancy for sail training ships & vessels worldwide)

Philippe Cabon Architecte Naval (Cruising and racing multihulls, dinghies, maxi-yachts & workboats)

Phil's Foils & Composites (Foil design tips and tricks)

Plans for Watercraft in the Collection of Mystic Seaport Museum

Plattdesign (Small-boat/pleasure boat custom designs by William R. Platt)

Platt Monfort's Geodesic AiroLITE Boats (Kits and plans)

Platypus Boats (San Francisco Pelican kits, Springfield, Oregon)

Plessis-Marin Yacht Design (Mono and multi-hull sailing yacht designs)

Pygmy Boats Inc. (Sea kayak plans)

Rachel, A Versatile Dinghy (Stitch 'n' glue design by Mark Anderson)

Ray's River Dories, Inc. (McKenzie River drift boat plans, kits)

Redfish Custom Kayak & Canoe Company's Plans for Wood Sea Kayaks

Reinke (Aluminum cruising sailboat plans for amateur and professional construction by Kurt Reinke, Bremen, Germany)

Response Marine (Welded aluminum boat design & construction sourcing)

R. H. Baker Boat Works (Small boat designs by the late Bob Baker and lines of classic boats taken off by him, Westport, Massachusetts)

Rick Etsell, Naval Architect (Custom yacht and workboat designs, specializes in steel and aluminum workboats and heavy duty yachts, yacht restorations)

The River's Touch (Dimensional plans and offsets for historic Oregon drift boats)

Robb White and Sons, Inc. (Strip-planked 16' Sport Boat plans, Thomaston, Georgia)

Robert Allan Ltd. (Naval architects and marine engineers, marine design and consulting services worldwide)

Robert H. Perry Yacht Designers Inc. (Sailing and motor Yachts, Seattle)

Roberto Barros Yacht Design (Designs for amateur and professional builders: sail & power yachts, professional fishing boats and utility craft, Brazil)

Robert Q. Riley Enterprises (Riley plans from Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics and Home Mechanix)

Roger Long Marine Architecture, Inc. (Specialist in oceanographic research vessel design)

The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)

Roy Folland Wooden Kayak Kits and Kayak Plans

Running Tide Yachts, Ltd. (Monohull and multihull designs with a mast-aft sailing rig and a 65' gamefishing sailing catamaran)

Sage Boats (Plywood kayak and rowboat plans, Prineville, Oregon)

The Sailboat Technology Foundation (Disseminating scientific research and technological advances, and promoting the communication among researchers, educators, students, designers and sailors)

The Sail Training Barquentine Calliope (Tobias Bender's naval architecture diploma thesis)

San Francisco Pelican Sailboats (Plans for all variations of Captain Short's classic, sold by Mrs. Short)

Satellite Yacht Design (Modern racing & cruising yachts designed by Kees van de Stadt, Holland)

SBI Marine (Highlander and Skylark small boat plans)

Scruffie Marine (Interlocking plywood kits for traditional style sailboats & motorboats, Queensland)

Seaboard Marine Powertrain and Equipment Design (Powertrain and equipment design and engineering)

Sea K Designs (Kits for scow-style plywood sailboats, Toronto)

The Searunner Design Parnership (John Marples and Jim Brown, cats and tris, sail and power)

Seaside Small Craft (lapstrake double-paddle canoes, skiffs, and other small recreational boats, designed using computer technology)

Sea Speed Aluminium Catamaran Design (Power catamarans, Brisbane, Australia)

Seaworthy Systems, Inc. (Full-service naval Arlchitecture firm involved in commercial and military engineering, and some very interesting passenger and yacht projects as well)

Selway Fisher Design (Plywood and strip yachts & boats for the home & professional boatbuilder)

Seth Person Boat Builders (Designs and kits for plywood rowing, paddling and power boats)

S. Fishwick - Small Boat Designs (Small boats, sailing canoes)

Shearwater Boats (Small boat, canoe, kayak plans)

The Shellback's Library Booklets Series (Inexpensive reprints of old boatbuilding and design articles)

Shell Boats (Kits and plans for plywood sailboats)

Ship and Boat Plans from the Smithsonian Institution (Historical and orginal plans by Chapelle, H. V. Sucher, HAMMS, more)

Shoestring Shipyard (Plans and kits for small wooden boats)

Simmons Sea-Skiff Plans from the Cape Fear Museum

A Skiff for All Seasons: How to Build an Alaskan Skiff (Boat plans in book form by Renn Tolman)

Skiffkits (Wood components for tolman skiffs, wooden boat building supplies, custom CNC design & cutting, Anchorage, Alaska)

Small Boat Plans by Morten Olesen (Canoes, sailboats and motorboats)

The Small Boat Forum Index of Small Boat Designers

The Smallboats Mailing List (Dedicated to the development of small boats which are rowed, paddled or sailed)

Small Tugs by Mal Low N.A. (Stock and custom plans for commercial tugs, character tugs, and tug-yachts 21-65', Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Smith Marine Design (Custom and stock plans for sportfishing and cruising powerboats by Timm Smith, Crystal River, Florida)

The SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo (SMTC&E, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 15-16, 2007)

The Society of Boat and Yacht Designers

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)

Solway Dory (Sailing canoe plans)

Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.

Specialty Marine Contractors (Design and computer lofting of welded aluminum boats, rigid inflatables with aluminum hulls, landing craft to 30', precut kit boats, Scappoose, Oregon)

Spira International by Jeff Spira (Stitch 'n' glue and framed plywood driftboats, dories, motorboats and ultralight boats)

Sponberg Yacht Design (Sail, power, multihull, free standing masts)

The Spray 700 (A trailerable metal 23' version of Slocum's boat, "the minimum serious cruiser")

Standfast Yachts (Custom fiberglass sailing yachts)

Steelkit Ltd. (Kits for aluminum and steel workboats, fishing boats and yachts, Wales)

Stephen Baker, Yacht Designer (Ocean sailboats, "specializing in good-looking, fast, comfortable boats")

Steve Redmond's Small Boat Designs (Plans for amateur boatbuilders)

Stillwater Boats (Persuaded plywood canoe and boat plans, kits)

Stimson Marine (Traditional boat and skin-on-frame boat plans, bowroof shed plans)

Stock Yacht Projects Ltd. (Marine design and project management, Auckland, New Zealand)

Strategic Marine (Designs for crew boats, work and patrol boats and support or transport vessels, Henderson, Western Australia)

Stuart M. Roy, Naval Architect (Sailing yacht and powercraft desig, UK)

Submersible Systems Technology, Inc. (Designs submarines, diving equipment, remotely operated vehicles, autonomous unmanned vehicles, hypobaric chambers and other specialized underwater equipment)

Swallow Boatworks (Kits for stitch 'n' glue small boats with a traditional style, designed by Nick Newland, Cardigan, Wales)

Swamp Yankee Boats (Stitch and glue canoe plans, kits)

Swan Boat Design (Ken Swan's plans & frame kits for wood rowboats, dories, sailboats, and more)

Sylvia Bolton Interior Design for Yachts

Tad Roberts Design (Large and small powerboats and sailboats)

Tanton Yachts (Design, engineering and construction)

Taylor Pacific Proa - An Experiment in Variable Geometry (Designs by Douglas Taylor)

Team Hydroski ("Defining, then executing the next transportation paradigm shift")

Ted Brewer Yacht Design

TenderCraft Boat Shop, Inc. (Plans & kits for wood stripper canoes, rowing skiffs & tenders)

Thomas E. Colvin Naval Architect

Thomas J. Hill Boat Designs (Plywood lapstrake small boats and canoes for amateur builders, Burlington, Vermont)

Thompson Performance Design (High performance sailboats, New Zealand)

Timothy Graul Marine Design (Commercial, fishing and pleasure craft, power and sail, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin)

Tom Fexas Yacht Design (Pleasure and work powerboats, Stuart, Florida)

Tracy O'Brien Marine Design (Plywood Northwest drift boats and skiffs)

The Traditional Boatshop (Steamboat plans, Gwynedd, Wales)

Tri-Coastal Marine Services (Yacht & ship design, historic preservation)

U-Fab Pontoon Boat Kits (No-welding kits for pontoon boats, houseboats and floating docks, Ottawa, Ontario)

Uffa Fox Ltd. (Biography, plans by Uffa, biblioghraphy, Uffa Fox books wanted and for sale)

The UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database (Over 1150 foils, links)

Uncle John's Classic Cajun Pirogue Kits

Unicorn Kayaks (Custom skin-on-frame kayaks kits, Kunkletown, Pennsylvania)

US Copyright Office Registration of Designs of Vessel Hulls

Valley Woodworking (Cedar strip canoe plans)

Van Dam Yacht Design (Wooden runabouts & motorboats)

Van de Stadt Design (Sailing yachts, Holland)

Velocity (Consultation on speed under sail, polars (performance predictions) for individual racing yachts or for variants still in the design stage)

Verme Yacht Projects (Planing waterjet propelled megayachts designer, Italy)

Victory Design (Naval architects and marine engineers specializing in, but not limited to, high performance motorboats & high tech mechanical components for offshore racing powerboats, Italy)

The Viking Ship Plans Mailing List

Virtual Boat Design (Bateau.com designs a boat online with the participation of Web users)

Volker Gries Naval Architect - Marine Engineer - Marine Consultant (Motor & sailing yachts, high performance vessels, commercial vessels, submerging ships)

Vripack Yachting International (Dutch naval architect-marine engineering-interior designers)

Waarschip Werf BV (Modern Plywood sailboat plans & kits 5.7-12.5m, Holland)

Warren Multihull Designs (Ted Warren)

Waters Dancing Boat Kit Company (Plywood canoes and kayaks, Edmonton, Alberta)

Wayland Marine - For Those Moved By Oars (Rowing boat kits, Bellingham, Washington)

The Whaleback Sailboat Design (Paul VandenBosch is designing a small, open water sailboat)

William J. Roué (Designer of the schooner Bluenose and many other craft)

WoodenBoat Magazine (A large selection of classic and modern designs)

Wooden Boat Plans by Gator Boat Co. (Traditional Southeastern style backwater boats: johnboats, skiffs and pirogues)

The Wooden Boatshop (Australian traditional and contemporary designs)

The Wooden Boats Workshop of Norwalk (Wooden Optimist dinghies and kits, Connecticut)

Wooden Widget.com (Downloadable plans for an origami folding dinghy)

Woods Designs (Sailing catamaran, stitch 'n' glue beach cat and rowing and sailing dinghy plans for home and professional builders)

Woodwind Boats (Wooden kit boats and Canadian canoes, Westcliff on Sea, Essex)

Working Boats (Prefix^™ interlocking plywood kits for power garvey work boats, designed by Rob Humphreys, UK)

www.rowing-boat.co.uk (A selection of small, open boat designs by John Hesp featuring epoxy and plywood construction)

The Yacht Design Library of Al Mason

The Yacht Research Homepage (Articles, links and projects)

Zurn Yacht Design (A full-service design firm situated in Marblehead, Massachusetts)

(Many one-design classes also offer plans and kits for sale)

Free Plans:

Absolutely Free Plans (Links to free online boat plans)

Architectura Navalis Mercatoria (The 1765 book by Frederik Hendrik af Chapman online)

Build Your Own Boat (Online reprints of boatbuilding articles from long ago)

The Cyber-Boat Mailing List (Discussion and download of free Cyber-Boat boat plans by designer Per Corelli)

Doug Garmon's Free Kayak Plans (The stitch-and-tape Qivitoq & others)

Fishing Boat Designs: 2. V-Bottom Boats of Planked and Plywood Construction (Free online booklet of FAO designs for open outboard and inboard motorboats, 5.2-8.5m)

The Folding Kayak Builders Manual (Free plans for aluminum framed folding kayaks)

Free Boat Design Resources On The Internet (Designs, design software, essays and tutorials)

Free Boat Plans and Other Boat Designs for the Home Builder by Thomas J. Carducci

Free Boat Plans by Morten Olesen (Canoes, sailboats and motorboats)

Free Louisiana Pirogue Plans (From Louisiana State University)

Free Online Plans for the Sunapee 22' Cruiser designed by Carl Gage (1935)

Free Online Plans from Jacques Mertens (D4 dinghy, 14' canoe)

A Free Tortured Plywood Canoe Plan and Building Instructions (In Danish)

Gidge Gandy's Groovin Garvey (A 16' sailing garvey from 1929)

Hannu's Boatyard (Free plans for one sheet, one and a half sheet and slightly larger plywood boats from Hannu Vartiala)

Herb McLeod's One Sheet Skiff

Here Are Some Old Boat Plans David Beede Ran Across at a Garage Sale in Maine (Free, online)

How to Build a Genuine Ozark John Boat (From Bittersweet magazine)

How to Build a Timber Outrigger Canoe (FAO online pamphlet)

An Index of the Boat Plans in MoToR BoatinG Magazine's Ideal Series Books

Ira Einsteen's Ira Einsteen's Free Double Paddle Dory & Herring Skiff (Free plans and building instructions for a 12' stitch 'n' glue outboard skiff)

Lewis Boat Works (Free and low-cost plans for flat bottom jon-boats, skiffs and pirogues)

Let a Hundred Sails Bloom (Free plans for the Egoist 5.5 meter lug-rigged singlehanded cruiser)

The Mouseboats Mailing List (Discussion about building and using the Mouse and Flying Mouse family of small craft originally designed by Gavin Atkin)

Mystic Seaport's Index to Vessel Designs in The Rudder, 1891-1950

Nepal Boat Building Programme (FAO online pamphlet with canoe and boat plans)

The PakYak Prototype (Free online plans for a 12' truly folding kayak)

Radoslaw Werszko - Wooden Dinghy Designer and Builder (Free stitch and glue sailboat plans, Poland)

Sandy Pittendrigh's Montana Riverboats (Free online building instructions for a McKenzie River style drift boat, the autocad-dimensions file costs $20)

The Scow (Free online design and building instructions for a 12' sailing scow, by Andrew Gibbens)

ShortyPen's Pocket Cruiser Design

Small Boat Self-Steering Designs (Free drawings by Walt Murray)

South Haven Dory Plans (Free plans for a stitch 'n' glue one-person rowing boat that is based on the St. Pierre dory)

Spira International by Jeff Spira (Free plans for a 13' banks dory to visitors who register)

Svenson's (Free Small Boat Plans From Science and Mechanics, Boat Builder Handbook and other very old magazines)

Sztrandka (Free plans for a 5 meter microcruiser)

Treasures from the Past (Online designs from an old How to Build 20 Boats)

The Turkish Amateur Design and Boat Building Portal (Free plans links as well as some online plans of their boat-design works)

Vintage Projects (Boat plans from old magazines)

Wacky Lassie (Free online plans for an instant double paddle canoe to be built and used by kids)

The Yago Project (Open source plans for a folded metal 9.2 meter yawl designed by Gerd Mueller)

Design Software:

AeroHydro (Marine design and modeling software and services)

AeroLogic (Lofting, simulation and analysis software)

AeroMarine Research (Tunnel boat design software)

The ASME CAD Directory (Free outdated CAD programs, from the American Society of Mechanical Engineeers, FTP)

Autodesk Volo View Express (A free downloadable application to display and print AutoCAD^® drawings without AutoCAD software)

Autoship Systems Corp. (Developer of marine design software including CAD/CAM and customized load planning software)

BaseLine Technology (Baseline II hull fairing software)

Baseline Technology's Engineering URL Database (Links to boat plans, engineering, manufacturing, drafting or software in support of these areas)

Blue Peter Marine (Hullform hull design software, including public domain obsolete version)

Creative Systems, Inc. (GHS and BHS ship and boat stability and hydrostatics software)

Crescent Vision Interactive (Stability Test Pro, an application to assist in analyzing incline experiment data)

DEFCAR (CAD CAM software for ship design, ship, boat and yacht construction)

Delftship (Complete vessel design package using subdivision surfaces)

DeskArtes (Develops and markets 3D Industrial Design software)

Formation Design Systems (Maxsurf range of advanced computer aided design, analysis and construction software)

Free Boat Design Resources On The Internet (Design software, essays and tutorials)

FREE!ship (Freeware, open source ship and 3D boat design and modeling program)

The FREE!ship How to and Tutorial Mailing List

Gregg Carlson's Hull Designer for Windows (Chined hull design program, up to six chines, expands planks, .DXF and HPGL output. Free)

Gregg Carlson's Hull Designer for Windows Program, an Alternative Tutorial

Gregg Carlson's SailForm (Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program)

Harold Ginsberg's NACA Foils for Boats & Ships (NACA4GEN shareware foil generating program)

HullWiz (Creates hull designs for Hull Designer for Windows from prompted user input)

HydroComp Inc. (Software for marine propulsion analysis, speed prediction and propeller sizing)

IMSISOFT free TurboCAD 2D

Johan Journée's Free Ship Design Software (Seaway ship motion program, ship and offshore hydromechanics programs for students)

KayakFoundry (Ross Leidy's free kayak design software)

Marcus Bole's PolyCAD (A free geometry editing tool developed with a lean towards naval architecture and ship design)

Mariner Kayaks (Robert Livingston's free BEARBOAT kayak design program (most suited to wood-strip construction) & Matt Broze's drag prediction spreadsheet)

Michlet (Software to calculates the total resistance and far-field wave elevations of thin monohulls and multihulls, by Leo Lazauskas)

Naval-architecture.co.uk (Inexpensive and free software & resources for all levels of marine engineering and naval architecture, including a free section tracing application)

New Wave Systems, Inc. (Nautilus & ProSurf computer-aided boat & ship design and construction software)

PlyBoats (Computer Aided Design software for the design of small boats)

Profili (Foil generation software)

Proteus Engineering (FastYacht/FastShip, FlagShip ship design software, including hullform design, structures, powering, stability, maneuvering, and cost estimating)

Rhino (NURBS modeling for Windows)

Robert Lainé's Carene Hull Design Software

Robert Lainé's Sailcut Sail Design Software

Ron Holland Design (Large yachts, Kinsale, County Cork)

Sailfish Yacht Analyzer^™ (Sailing yacht velocity prediction software)

Seapower Resistance and Power Prediction Software

The SeaSolution (A shipbuilding CAD system for geometric simulation and design especially for fairing lines and shell plates development)

The Society of Polish Naval Architects and Marine Engineers KORAB (TOP KORAB)

Stentec Software (Boat design software)

Tri-Coastal Marine Software (AutoDock marine utility for AutoCAD, Atalanta integrated marine design and manufacture inside AutoCAD)

Unfold (Free program by Doug Garmon that converts a sequence of 3-dimensional coordinates into a 2-dimensional shape)

Vacanti Yacht Design Software (Prolines)

Velocity (Software for designers for performance prediction and hull design)

Virtual Marine Arsenal (Links to CAD/CAE/CAM software for designing of ships, yachts, boats...)

Design Training:

The Chalmers University of Technology Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (Gothenburg, Sweden)

The Delft University of Technology (The only academic course in naval architecture in the Netherlands)

KORAB (The Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Students' Assoc., Technical University of Gdansk, Poland)

The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design (Kennebunkport, Maine)

MacNaughton Associates' Residential Yacht Design School

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow

The Ocean & Naval Architectural Engineering Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. Johns)

The University of California, Berkeley Ocean Engineering Graduate Group (A 1-2 year graduate program in ship, boat and offshore design)

The Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (Private, tuition free college that offers a bachelor of science in naval architecture and marine engineering)

The Westlawn Institute Of Marine Technology (Boat design correspondence courses)

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