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Jimkb1mcv

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    southern Maine USA
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    Ham radio, usually AM on 160 and 75 M, old cars and other old stuff.

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  1. Since I signed on the forum a few weeks ago, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself. I've been browsing the content and have to confess to being a bit taken with the quality of craftsmanship. I spent around 38 years in the maritime industry (working vessels), spent several years as Chief Engineer on a side trawler and finished my career as Chief Engineer on a 30k ton bulker. I came ashore in 2007. One of my hobbies has been building models starting with balsa flying models in the 1950s and built my first Friendship sloop model at sea on a factory ship in the late '60s. In the past I mostly scratchbuilt my models except for a 1/96 Benjamin Lathrop from a Model Shipways kit in the mid-seventies, assisted with a by now battered copy of Chappell's 'The American Fishing Schooner'. I would comment that information and documentation was very difficult to obtain shoreside and of course impossible at sea. The internet has changed that along with not having to have film developed at the neighborhood drugstore. In August I was part of a antique auto tour that happened to overnight in Searsport, Maine right along side Bluejacket Shipcrafters. I had been eyeing one of their kits on the net for some time and to make a yarn a bit shorter left the shop with a kit to build Liberty Ship Jerimiah O'Brian under my arm. She may end up with a different name, that remains to be seen. I have studied Schooner's excellent SS Stephen Hopkins building documentation and I think have gained some insight on the ship. As one of my old Chiefs said, 'The Liberties were built by the mile and cot off by the yard". I also spent an enjoyable evening with the Naval gun crew off the 'SS John Brown" at the 'Cats Eye Pub' in Baltimore a number of years ago. But thats another story. I need the refine my digital photography skills among other things. Thanks for letting me join. Jim Richardson
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