optimist boat building
This web page is dedicated to building an optimist plywood pram to the specifications of the original optimist pram designed in 1947. we are using a set of plans redrawn by cabbs - cleveland amateur boat builders and available for $24.00. these wonderful little boats will never measure to the strict international optimist design.. A time lapse video of our building of a wooden optimist dinghy (ok technically a pram) over an intermittent 10 months from november of 2014 to august of 2015. the video of the sea trials is here. Clark mills designed the original optimist pram in 1947.his intention was to offer a simple boat that children could use to learn to sail and build themselves. it was the biggest hull clark mills could make from two 4 ft by 8 ft sheets of plywood.. 
