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). Work boats - fishing boats - passenger boats - boat plans boat cutting files & boat kits - 21' / 6m - 78' / 24m. the photo shown here is of the euro 1200 coastworker ( 12m / 40 ft ) and is typical of our purpose designed work / fishing boats.. George whisstock started work at the yard in 1962, gaining hands-on practical experience in all aspects of yacht handling, repair, construction and design. george spearheaded the introduction of west™ system wood-epoxy construction to the yard in the 1970’s, making whisstocks was the first boatyard in the uk to build west™ system boats professionally..
Several of our designs (for plywood) have been built in steel and more often, in aluminium (canoes and dinghies especially). for steel, we have had to remodel the hull to give more displacement volume by increasing beam and hull depth (see our 22' black swan yacht) and we can do this for many of our designs.. Welcome to this, the woods designs web site which we hope you will find is an interesting and useful introduction to our range of boat designs.. How fast does it go? for estimating the speed for small outboard planing boats see planing speed boat chart. this chart should be used for general estimates only. joe carozzoni offered a suggestion - when builders list the engine (.e.g cid/hp) and propeller size/pitch - it's not much help unless they give a.
