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Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917
If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.
The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.
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Dear Members of the Model Ship World:
After a 5 year hiatus from the ship modeling hobby, it's great for this 83 year old to return to a lifetime interest along with enjoying nautical research. As the son of an architect / engineer, I learned about building models at an early age. But it wasn't until retirement in 2005 that I really got my hands on some basswood, decent tools and a couple of kits.
Living in St. Michaels, MD (1985-1990) created a serious interest in the workboats of the Chesapeake Bay that harvest oysters and crabs. I've built a Chesapeake Bay Buyboat, which appeared on the inside front cover of the February and May/June 2015 issues of Ships In Scale. That was followed up by a model of a Hooper Island Draketail in the March/April 2016 issue of Ships In Scale.
The relocation from Florida up to South Carolina in 2016, along with my wife's health situation, pulled me away from the hobby until her passing in 2018. This was followed up by a two year restoration of a 1952 Chevy, then a major heart attack in March of this past year, which now has me living in a three room apartment in an adult care living facility. The second bedroom is the hobby room, office and library, with every available space utilized, similar to my earlier life on a U. S. Navy destroyer in the 1960's.
When re-joining the NRG, Mary Van Dahm even remembered my name from the previous 25 year membership. So it's great to once again become a member of that fine organization as well as becoming part of MSW. Currently I am working on an excellent Model Expo kit of the Willie L. Bennett, a classic Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, some build logs which currently appear in MSW for guidance.
I will look forward to hearing from any fellow MSW / NRG members who share a similar interest in Chesapeake Bay workboats, and wish you all "fare winds and following seas" from Aiken, SC