Franny Mae was built by the Anchorage Co. in Warren, Rhode Island in 1952. It is a Dyer Glamour Girl 16’ launch. It has a Universal Atomic four engine.
At some point, it was brought to the New York Adirondacks and served as a mail boat for a time on Honnedaga Lake in Ohio, New York. Honnedaga Lake is owned by the Adirondack League Club.
It was purchased by the current owner, Mary Hunt-Miller, in 2001 from the prior owner, Joseph Pfeiffer, Sr. He was also the previous owner of the Adirondack Sport Center in Hawkinsville, New York, still a family-run business. At that time, Mary and husband Bernie were living on Kayuta Lake, Remsen, NY, and enjoyed cruising the lake in Franny Mae.
When Mary and Bernie retired to Maryland in 2013, Franny Mae came to Wittman and in 2014 all moved to Neavitt. She eventually came to be in pretty bad shape. Jim Marks of Tilghman Island repaired her and completed the work in 2019. This Glamour Girl was then named in honor of Mary’s parents, Francis and Helen Mae Hunt. In 2021 she was entered into the annual Antique and Classic Boat Show at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD.
Mary and Bernie currently enjoy boating in Franny Mae on the creeks that feed the Chesapeake Bay.
Friends had one on Cape Cod when I was young. She was used for beaching on sandbars for family picnics and games and fishing for porgies (or pogies). The common Cape Cod name for that fish was scup, so the boat had that name.