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Reconditioning an Eighteenth-Century Ship Model
Photo: Sherry Moore
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Reconditioning an Eighteenth-Century Ship Model
VALKENISSE RETOURSCHIP OF 1717
VALKENISSE RETOURSCHIP OF 1717
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he ship modeling world called to Rob Napier when he was a boy. He turned to it for a career when he was 27, and it has occupied him professionally since. He now focuses on building new models and on maintaining models for individuals and institutions. Rob’s original models are created on a groundwork of documentation found in the historical, photographic, and artistic records. His work has won awards at national and regional competitions, and he has judged numerous ship modeling events. Rob works closely with curators and conservators of institutional collections to repair and conserve models and to prepare them for exhibition. Rob shares his experiences and views by lecturing and by contributing frequently to publications that feature ship modeling and maritime history; he edited the Nautical Research Journal for five years during the mid-1990s. Rob served as a US Navy journalist during two late-1960s combat cruises to Southeast Asia. He has experience with small boat building and commercial fishing, and he is an avid sailor. Rob lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with his wife Sherry Moore.
Reconditioning an Eighteenth-Century Ship Model
Jacket photos: Rob Napier
ROB NAPIER