The Quahog Pram was designed for us by John Brady of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. This is a fast little row boat, and a perfect tender. The traditional lines give it style. The pram is an intrinsically stable boat when loaded down with gear, and this one is no exception. It is a kind boat for kids learning the skills of rowing and boat handling. It is easily transported, weighing around 125 lbs.

The sailing version comes with a traditional lug rig, and dagger board and is an exceptionally responsive little sailing dinghy, perfect for gunk holing. It is a stable and fun boat for kids to hone their sailing skills on. The balanced lug is easy to rig, yet offers the excitement of a traditional boat.

Taken from plans found in Rudder Magazine, circa 1915. P.T. Henson stretched it from a traditional 10' flat bottomed skiff to a 14 footer, which he built in 1938. At the request of his son, Arnold Henson, we took the lines off the old boat and build a new version using cedar planking, an angelique stem, and oak frames. The transom, keelson, skeg and rubrails are wana, and the seats spanish cedar.

It is used as launch as well as an exceptional rowing skiff.

This is our second project commissioned by Arnold Henson. The requirements were that we take the lines off the original 60-year-old pram, which we did with some minor improvements.

The result is a very sweet little tender that rows and tows well, and looks great to boot! Construction is meranti mahogany plywood (BS 1088), solid mahogany fore and aft transoms, spruce stringers, chines and floorbaords, and cedar seats.

A single rowing station is standard, but a second one is an option. We have strived to keep the costs down by carefully choosing long lasting but affordable materials.