Some twenty years ago I started my first and only boatbuilding attempt, with plans for a little 11' rowing double-ender called a "Dory Dinghy" (and the plans were from Texas, in fact). I built the frames, but the project fractured when I realized I had not the skills or tools to scarf-join plywood. In retrospect I don't think it would have been very stable, but I really don't know.
A few years ago I ordered plans for a Whisp (16' lightweight lapstrake-ply rowing skiff designed for Lake Champlain on calm days) Which are around here somewhere. I'd really like to find the plans in fact cause now I finally have the tools, some skill in using them, and best of all I got my new shop closed in this summer--28 x 12' and it's all mine mine mine!
My first project though, I think, will be to rebuild my venerable el cheapo Folbot kayak and put a lightweight cedar deck on instead of the original canvas. Should build a new one but maybe that's next.
Also I'm reading strip-built canoe books...a close contender. And/or, my friends down the road have a 17' cedar/canvas tripping canoe which needs recanvassing due to improper storage, and they don't want to keep it...a tempting prospect. The woodwork is in real good shape.
So many possibilities, so little decisiveness! Life is kind of good, actually.