8' Traditional Wood Pram
NEWS FLASH
Our 8' Traditional Wood Pram are now built a 5 ply marine grade plywood which is suitable for staining instead of a 3 ply marine plywood which is full of "footballs" and difficult to hide the grain. This is a HUGE upgrade for our already value packed wood pram. Our wood prams are built to order and ONLY in our Winter months with Spring delivery so order early or wait until next season. You could always look at our glass prams as well. Our Stillwater Classic or Stillwater Classic "Lite" are both, in reality, our wood pram in lightweight, durable and low maintenabce fiberglass.
Jim Wheeler
Classic
time tested design
Our classic wood pram design dates back to the mid 1600’s. Our “Traditional Wood” pram hulls are built with high quality 5 ply HydroTech marine grade plywood and come standard with mahogany gunwales. An ash rub strip on the bottom center and one each on the chines reducing wear and tear and are replaceable. Seams and bottom are fiberglassed to reduce maintenance and increase the life of the hull. No assembly required. Ready for sanding and paint.Why buy a kit with this quality and these prices? So, you want to see for yourself? Look at the following websites;
"Grandpas Stories"
We hear all the stories about “boy I remember my
dad’s old wood pram when I was a kid”. So, for all of you yearning to go back in
time to the “good old days” we have completely assembled 8’ Traditional
Wood Prams available. Built for us locally by two brothers who are in their late 70’s
and have been building wood boats all their lives. The entire bottom and all seams have
been epoxied as well as the interior floor in front and behind the center seat.
Here is a 39 year old
Traditional Wood pram owned by my brother-in-law in use catching Kamloops rainbow trout in
British Columbia. With the exception of some minor rot in the transom (after almost 40
years in a basement I'd have some rot too) area which was fixed this year it's still going
strong. The story behind this pram is quite funny. Bill's dad used to buy these (from the
same gents who build them for us now) six at a time. They would stand them up in the
garage and "drag" one over the rocks and barnacles down to the water and row out
to their fishing boat. This would go on until it wouldn't hold water any more. They would
then leave it on the beach, set it on fire and go up and start the whole process over
again. Hey, they were only $35 a piece 40 years ago! Bill's next pram you might
ask? The Stillwater Classic Fly Fishing Edition of
course.
Once again, Annie the wonderdog gets in the shot. This is
one of our new Hydrotech built prams that has a single coat of epoxy on the sides. Note
the warm color of the wood. And no "footballs in the plywood. Very nice stuff!
Traditional Wood Prams
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
8' Overall length 7' 10" Width at oarlocks 51" Side height at oarlocks 14.5" Bottom width 39" Weight (approx. painted) 70# Maximum load capacity 250# Price $ 995