The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 17 of 47

Designers, Plans & Kits N to Z:

The Newfound Woodworks, Inc. (Strip-planked canoe, kayak and boat plans and kits)
Newick Nautical Designs (Dick Newick, stock and custom multihull designs, Sebastopol, California)
Nexus Marine Corporation (Plywood motor and rowing boats for amateur or professional construction, Everett, Washington)
Nigel Irens Design (Shoal draft cruising luggers, cruising cutters, power and sailing multihulls)
Noah's Marine Supply (Bear Mountain canoe & kayak plans & kits)
Nordkyn Design (Voyaging motor and sailboats by Eric Bretscher, articles about design and engineering)
Northwest Canoe Company (Canoe plans, Clearwater, Minnesota)
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 (OT&BE, designers of articulated tug/barge units)
Odyssey Boat Kits (Preassembled kit for a 15 1/2' Swampscott dory, Camano Island, Washington)
One Ocean Kayaks (Designs and construction info and tips for high performance wooden sea kayaks)
Oughtred Boats (Iain Oughtred boat plans, kits and building support, Mount Baker, South Australia)
The Oz Goose Sailboat (Michael Storer's cheap, simple, 12' square boat, "sailing is for everyone")
Pacific Motor Boat Design (Rick Etsell, naval architect, Anacortes, Washington)
Parker Marine Enterprises (Reuel Parker, custom designs and stock plans for cold-molded wood, plywood, traditional wood, aluminum and steel construction)
Paul Butler Projects ("Building plans for amateur & first-time builders," Port Angeles, Washington)
Paul Gartside Ltd. (Boatbuilder and designer, East Hampton, New York)
The Phil Bolger Wikiwand Page
Platt Monfort's Geodesic Airolite Boats (Kits and plans for skin on frame boats, Newnan, Georgia)
Portable Boat Plans of Arizona (Take apart small boats by Ken Simpson)
Port Townsend Watercraft (Modern stitch & glue boat kits, Washington)
Puur Sailboats (Kits for a 17' performance sailboat, Evergreen, Colorado)
Rantilla Rowing (Odyssey rowboat kits and plans, Warren, Rhode Island)
Raymond Hunt Design (Motorboats, motor yachts & workboats, New Bedford, Massachusetts)
Ray's River Dories, Inc. (McKenzie River driftboat plans, kits)
Redfish Custom Kayak & Canoe Company's Plans and kits for Wood Sea Kayaks (By Joe Greenley, Port Townsend, Washington)
Reinke (Aluminum cruising sailboat plans for amateur and professional construction by Kurt Reinke, Bremen, Germany)
Response Marine (Welded aluminum boat design & construction sourcing, Newburyport, Massachusett)
R. H. Baker Boat Works (Small boat designs by the late Bob Baker and lines of classic boats taken off by him, Westport, Massachusetts)
Riccelli Yacht Design (Plywood sailboats and motorboats, most for amateur builders, engineering, consultation and design work, Eustis, Florida)
The River's Touch (Dimensional plans and offsets for historic Oregon driftboats)
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)
Rodger Martin Design (Sailboats, motorboats, Newport, Rhode Island)
Ron Holland Design (Large yachts, Kinsale, County Cork)
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)
Roy Design (A shanty boat and dinghy by Roy Schreyer)
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)
Salmo Boats (Plans and kits for stitch 'n' glue rowing and sailing boats by Andrzej Ksiazyk, Legionowo, Poland)
Sandy River BoatWorks (Plans and kits for wooden kayaks, canoes, rowboats & small sailboats, Corbett, Oregon)
Satellite Yacht Design (Modern racing & cruising yachts designed by Kees van de Stadt, Holland)
Schionning Designs (Sailing and power mulithull plans and kits, Tea Gardens, New South Wales)
Scruffie Marine (Interlocking plywood kits for traditional style sailboats & motorboats, Eagle Heights, Queensland)
Sea/Land Design (Designs by Philip Thiel, NA, Seattle)
The Searunner Design Parnership (John Marples and Jim Brown, cats and tris, sail and power)
Seashell Boats (Wooden sailing dinghy kits and plans, Lostwithiel, Cornwall)
Sea Speed Aluminium Catamaran Design (Power catamarans, Brisbane, Australia)
Selway Fisher Design (Plywood and strip yachts & boats for the home & professional boatbuilder)
Shearwater Boats (Small boat, canoe, kayak plans)
Shell Boats (Kits and plans for plywood sail and rowing boats by Fred Shell, St. Albans, Vermont)
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, Milbridge, Maine)
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)
Small Boat Plans by Morten Olesen (Canoes, sailboats and motorboats)
Smith Marine Design (Custom and stock plans for sportfishing and cruising powerboats by Timm Smith, Crystal River, Florida)
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
Solway Dory (Sailing canoe plans)
Southerly Designs (High speed aluminium working and pleasure motor vessels, Port Denison, Western Australia)
Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.
Specmar (Design and computer lofting of welded aluminum boats, rigid inflatables with aluminum hulls, landing craft to 30', precut kit boats, Scappoose, Oregon)
Stephens Waring Yacht Design ("Spirit of tradition" sail and power boats, Brooklin, Maine)
Stevenson Projects (Easy-build boat plans)
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)
Strategic Marine (Designs for crew boats, work and patrol boats and support or transport vessels, Henderson, Western Australia)
Straydog Boat Works (Bruce Kirby NIS plans, Iain Oughtred plans & kits, Mt. Baker, South Australia)
Stuart M. Roy, Naval Architect (Sailing yacht and powercraft desig, UK)
Suomen Puuvenepiste Oy (Kits for lapstrake wooden rowing boats and other small craft, Kaartilankoski, Finland)
Sylvia Bolton Interior Design for Yachts (Seattle)
Tad Roberts Design (Large and small powerboats and sailboats)
Takel-Ing (Wooden vessel consulting, design and research, reproduction of old plans, Neuenkirchen, Germany)
Taylor Pacific Proa - An Experiment in Variable Geometry (Designs by Douglas Taylor)
Team Scarab Multihulls (Sailing trimarans by Ray Kendrick, Australia)
Ted Brewer Yacht Design
TenderCraft Boat Shop, Inc. (Plans & kits for wood stripper canoes, rowing skiffs & tenders, Toronto)
Thomas E. Colvin Naval Architect
Thompson Performance Design (High performance sailboats, New Zealand)
Timber Boatworks (Drift boat plans and kits, Timber, Oregon)
Tim Nolan Marine Design (Boat design services for new construction and conversions, Port Townsend, Washington)
Timothy Graul Marine Design (Commercial, fishing and pleasure craft, power and sail, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin)
Tracy O'Brien Marine Design (Plywood Northwest driftboats and skiffs)
Tri-Coastal Marine Services (Yacht & ship design, historic preservation)
TriloBoats (Simple plywood box-barges for sail, power and/or mooring)
Tucker Designs (Plywood, aluminium, steel and fiberglass, sail and motor, pleasure and work craft for amateur and professional construction, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire)
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
US Copyright Office Registration of Designs of Vessel Hulls
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 megayacht 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)
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)
West Coast Boat Works (CNC cut kits for Tolman and Glacier Boats of Alaska motorboats, Bend, Oregon)
Westlake Boats (Plans for rowboats and motor launches by Larry Westlake, Sechelt, British Columbia)
Whisstock Boat Plans and Kits (Sailboats and motorboats to 67' for amateur builders by George Whisstock, Rockland, Maine)
William J. Rou� ("dedicated to the legacy of Canada's first naval architect," designer of the schooner Bluenose and many other craft)
Wolstenholme Yacht Design (Modern and classic power and sailing boats, workboats, Coltishall, Norfolk)
WoodenBoat Magazine (Sells a large selection of classic and modern designs)
Wooden Widget.com (Downloadable plans for skin on frame and origami folding dinghies)
Woods Designs (Sailing catamaran, stitch 'n' glue beach cat and rowing and sailing dinghy plans for home and professional builders)
Wojtka Kasprzaka (Polish boat designer)
The Yacht Research Homepage (Articles, links and projects)
Yves-Marie Tanton's Boat Design Blog
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:

The 13' Rowing Dory Assay (Free downlaodable plans with full-size pattern from Classic Wooden Boat Plans)
Absolutely Free Plans (Links to free online boat plans)
Ariawood Boat Works (Plywood punts, jonboats and one-sheet boats)
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria (High resolution images of the drawings in Frederik Hendrik af Chapman's book)
BoatPlans-Online.com (Free boat plans from old magazines, tutorials)
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)
Flow-Mo (Flowing Motion, 1, 2 & 3 sheet stitch 'n' glue boats and canoes, stitch 'n' glue version of the West Mersea Duck Punt, design studies of classic small craft and modern classics, Vienna, Austria)
Free Boat Plans by Morten Olesen (Canoes, sailboats and motorboats)
Free Boat Plans From Old Magazines (At DIY Wood Boat)
Free Louisiana Pirogue Plans (PDF, from Louisiana State University)
Free Online Plans for the Sunapee 22' Cruiser designed by Carl Gage (1935)
Gidge Gandy's Groovin Garvey (A 16' sailing garvey from 1929)
The Gislinge Boat Open Source Project (Free building plans for a 12th century Danish workboat)
Hannu's Boatyard (Free plans for one sheet, one and a half sheet and slightly larger plywood boats from Hannu Vartiala)
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 (Article by Stephen Hough, 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
Lewis Boat Works (Free and low-cost plans for flat bottom jon-boats, skiffs and pirogues)
Mystic Seaport's Index to Vessel Designs in The Rudder, MotorBoating and Yachting
Nepal Boat Building Programme (FAO online pamphlet with canoe and boat plans)
The PakYak Prototype (Free online plans for a 12' truly folding kayak)
The Puddle Duck Racer (PDR, a restricted development class of 8' scows)
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 driftboat, the autocad-dimensions file costs $20)
Svenson's (Free Small Boat Plans From Science and Mechanics, Boat Builder Handbook and other very old magazines)
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)
Whisstock Boat Plans and Kits (Free downladable plans for a 1936 22' Deben 4-Tonner by W. M. Blakeand, and modern plans for a 23' Deben 5-Tonner by George Whisstock, Rockland, Maine)
Wojtka Kasprzaka (Polish boat designer, some plans free)
Yostwerks (Tom Yost's aluminum frame folding and wood frame skiined kayak, and inflatable kayak manuals, with free plans)

Design Software:

3DBoatDesign (CAD ship, yacht and boat design software)
AeroHydro (Marine design and modeling software and services)
AeroLogic (Lofting, simulation and analysis software)
AeroMarine Research (Tunnel boat design software)
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)
Bentley Systems (The Maxsurf range of advanced computer aided design, analysis and construction software)
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)
Dassault Syst�mes SOLIDWORKS Corp. (3D CAD and simulation software, Waltham, Massachusetts)
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)
FreeCAD (An Open Source parametric 3D CAD modeler)
FREE!ship (Freeware, open source ship and 3D boat design and modeling program)
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)
HydroComp Inc. (Software for marine propulsion analysis, speed prediction and propeller sizing)
Kasten Marine Design (US representative for the Maxsurf range of advanced computer aided design, analysis and construction software, Port Townsend, Washington)
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)
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)
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 Lain�'s Sailcut Sail Design Software
Sailfish Yacht Analyzer^� (Sailing yacht velocity 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)
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)

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