Free Plans
Officially speaking, there are no plans, only a hull shape that you must conform to as specified in the rules.
You can build the boat any way you want, the most common and easy method is the "nail and glue" method where you use a chine log to join pieces of plywood.
For a pictorial of how this is done, see the Building BucketEars article.
A couple of plan sets have been made.
If you would like to draw up a set of plans, that is great -- there is a folder in the yahoo discussion group called "Free PD Plans", go there and create a sub folder, and upload your plans there.
Please make sure your your plans conform to the hull shape requirements.
NOTE: To download these plans to your computer, right click on them, and save to local hard drive.
Free PD Plans at our Yahoo Discussion Group [click here]
Shorty's Simple 18 - Basic 18" hull with airboxes on the ends, everything can come from Home Depot s18-1.gif overall plan s18-2.doc building key s18-2.xls bill of materials s18-4.gif cut plan for 2x materials
For pictures of this building process, see Building Bucket Ears Article
2006 World Championship Loaner Boats - The boats that John Wright built, so that out of town visitors could borrow them and compete in the big race.
[click here]
Tim Cleary's Photo Essay - side airbox design[click here]
OZ PDRacer - well these plans are not free, they have to be purchased, but are very complete with lots of photographs and drawings.
Available from DuckWorksMagazine.com
Pete's Plans - Basic 18" hull with airboxes on the ends pete1.gif Overall Layout pete2.gif Cut Plan pete.hul Carlson Hull Designer file
For more info on the Carlson Hull Designer program, see CarlsonDesign.com
Other & Old Boat Plans
Here are some other boat plans, some of them old time plans that have been around long enough for the copyright to expire.
They aren't PDRacers, but they have interesting details which might be adapted to your PDRacer.
Boyscout Canoe Sail - Convert a regular canoe into a sailboat canoe1.jpg canoe2.jpg
Harley 8 - One sheet skiff with lots of other great sailing info harley-8.pdf
Three Dollar Scow
This is the oldest reference to simple box style boat that has been found so far.
The design was published in Scientific American Supplement, June 17, 1876.
See Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages for the article.
