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You can build a boat from our DIY Plans

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Building your own boat is a fun project with a great little boat to enjoy at the end of it and its not as difficult or as necessarily long a project as you might think.

We used to run boat buiding courses with canoes built ready to take home and paint in a 2 day weekend.

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With our plans there are no special tools required or difficult joints to cut. We use a simple method to get the component parts dimensions laid out on the plywood sheet(s) and, if you get stuck, we will help you through it with our free email/text/phone/whatsapp help if you need it.

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Our aim is to make building your boat as easy as we can for you. There are no difficult joints to cut even in our clinker plywood designs and no special tools required either. In fact, you probably have them already in your own home DIY tool box such as a jig saw, a drill and a sander. What you will find you need the most is clamps.

 

The plans come in four different types with all the drawings, a materials list and step by step instructions needed to build a dinghy or canoe with oars or a paddle and sail rig details where applicable. Plus, general information for the materials you will be using, pictures of a build, how to make simple saw horses and a simple build base. 

 

Digital Download Plans

PDF download with full build instructions and drawings

 

Printed A4 Plans manual

Full build instructions and drawings in an A4 manual

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Printed A3 Workshop Plans

Full build instructions and drawings with A3 drawings making them easier to read and use in your workshop

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Full Size Patterns* with Build Plans

As above with relevant A3 drawings but with the addition full size patterns of the main hull parts to save you marking it all out.

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*Not all designs available with all types of plans packs while we update the plans.

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My father, the designer of our boats started STANLEY SmallCraft in 1990 developing his own designs and he built each one.

I have taken over the day to day running of the business but he is still on hand for design and technical questions etc.

We only sell the plans I've selected from his tried and tested designs with many sold over the years.

There's many more in his design portfolio which I will release over time along with adding full size patterns to the few existing designs that don't have the option yet.

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​​Any questions? - Contact us stanleysmallcraft@gmail.com

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