with Plans for "Jennie" an 8-ft. Pram
by Weston Farmer
LOA 8 FT., BEAM 42 IN.
You see prams everywhere. They are numerous as lily pads. Why? They’re duck soup to build, and they’re light, useful, and fun. Here is the dope on them, with plans for a good one. I’ve named her Jennie because she is plump, and plain-—a little wren in the boat family. The pram may seem a new type, but actually they are old, being English in derivation. Until plywood got itself waterproof and gave everybody a cheap hull covering, the only prams you would see were rather heavy. So they were used chiefly abroad, mainly as mooring tenders to pint-sized British singlehanded sailing achts. The first pram design published in this country was the Wee Pup designed, if I recall correctly, by Edson B. Schock, a friend of mine and naval architect, iather of our Edson I. Schock. Her plans appeared at least 40 years ago. I built one taking 80 hours, because those were peaceful days; and Wee Pup was cross-planked, clinker tppsided—-all the befoodilements of old-time boatbuilding, for which there is now little patience.
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