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Boat plans
"Boat designs" redirects here. For a general page on the process of boat designing, see boat design.
The primary goal of this section of the site is to catalog boat designs that are in the public domain or under free license. Although other boats are welcome, the website owner's primary interest is wooden sail boats. This is also the type of boats for which the greatest number of public domain designs will likely be found. Where full-sized plans can be found, they will be posted. Where they cannot, study plans or magazine prints will be posted. I will try to identify a correct copyright theory for the plans to be free; however, all materials are used at your own risk and I am not providing legal advice. Furthermore, I may be somewhat aggressive in my interpretations of the law, you may find it prudent to be more conservative; as a lawyer I'm in a position to defend my own website, I am not in a position to defend you (except for a substantial sum of money). There may also be a few non-free plans on this site, read the licenses with care.
Copyrights and other usage restrictions
Boat designers may attempt to restrict the usage of their plans. Various methods and my opinions on them are discussed here
