“FREE Expert Advise on How To Build A Small Boat, with Just a Few Tools From Your Garage and A Set of Skiff Plans!”

Dear Friend:

Welcome to Skiff Plans,

My name is Keith Strong,  and I’ve been a DIY boat builder, for Over 20 Years...  I started skiffplans.net as a free resource for others who are interested in learning how to build a small boat, (a wooden skiff) using a simple set of fishing boat plans, and a few common tools!

Here on my website, you’ll find a number of resources to help you learn more about building your own wooden skiff, such as where to get the best information on boat epoxy,  how you can save money on materials, drawing out your patterns, and much more.

I’ve put together a free step-by-step mini-course to help you get started quickly building your own skiff…  It’s designed to teach you all of the essentials of laying out, cutting and assembling the parts. (even if you don’t have any prior boat building experience : )


In my FREE  Mini-Course, You’ll Learn:


  • The #1 most overlooked factor when it comes to building your own Wooden Skiff that can make a huge impact on your safety and the safety of your boat…

  • How to build a small boat in a few days, instead of months, by finding secrets in the plans that will speed up your construction time, getting you out on the water even faster.
  • The heart and soul of a skiff building, knowing this could prevent you from wasting money on your project!
  • The truth about Epoxy and Plywood, and how to ensure that your hulls are watertight…not just now, but years from now…( knowing this could save you a lot of headache).
  • The #1 most critical factor in successful hull construction, and how to avoid disaster with a the same method used on huge tuboats …
  • The purpose of lofting, and even more important, knowing how to do it the easy way so that you can draw your boat parts and know they will fit just right!
  • How to supercharge any plywood, making it stronger, stiffer, and extremely waterproof…
  • How to reduce your scrap rate to almost nothing, with a little know system used in shipyards, making every inch count, and saving hundreds of dollars on materials…
  • How to orient plywood sheets, so that you get the maximum strength and stiffness when building a wood boat…
  • How to paint your wooden skiff with inexpensive paints, that use no thinners or dangerous solvents, so that your small boat looks fantastic, while being kind to our planet…
  • Useful information you can use with most any plywood boat plans!

And much more!