New Jersey Ship Model Society Zoom Meetings and Presentations

[Chuck]

Good Morning everyone,

 

Our next meeting is this coming Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 7:00 PM. 

 

Our Tech Session for this meeting will be presented by Susan McClure, Executive Director of the Vermont Maritime Museum. She will discuss her museums efforts to find the USS Spitfire, which was sunk in 1776, in Lake Champlain, during the battle of Valcour Island. Not only did they find the wreck. They are in the process of raising the necessary funds to raise and displayed it. She will also discuss their model ship collection.  This presentation is not to be missed.

 

If you know someone who would like to attend as a guest, that’s great.  Let us know and we will send an invitation.  We need to know because they will show up in a waiting room and the meeting host needs to let them in.

 

Below is the link to the meeting.  Note that if you do not have a smart phone, tablet, or computer that has a microphone you can dial in.  If you click the link, you do not have to also dial in.  That is only if you do not have a microphone.

 

Topic: Ship Model Society of New Jersey Club's Zoom Meeting

Time: Oct 27, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Regards,

 

Tom Ruggiero

 

Secretary/Treasurer and Past President SMSNJ

[knightyo]

(A little off-topic, but I think you could make a pretty cool kit from this type of ship, Chuck.  Looks like something that would be fantastic entry-level project for beginners).

 

That Zoom meeting looks like it's going to be fascinating.  I'd love to attend, but that's the exact time my wife gets home from work and my chores begin. Any chance of the meeting being uploaded to YouTube, etc?

 

Alan

[Chuck]

I dont think its recorded.   Its too bad you cant attend.  Anyone can attend.   I posted just because I knew that many would be interested in this.  The moment a credible set of plans can be developed for something like this you can guarantee I would produce something for you guys.

 

In fact, as we speak I am researching  with another one of our club members a project for an American subject that has been mostly ignored by kit makers.   I hope to produce something for this as my next project before I attempt something larger again.  Its a small subject and it will be great to focus on an early 19th century early American craft.

 

More on that as it gets started.   

 

Chuck

[Justin P.]

Ill definitely be tuning in! 

[Bill Brown]

Hello folks,

 

This is Bill, a fellow club member of Chuck’s, from the Ship Model Society of New Jersey.   I will be hosting the SMSNJ club meeting this coming Tuesday.   As Chuck mentioned, we are all very much looking forward to hearing from our guest speaker this month, Susan McClure.  It should be a great talk on a very interesting topic.   If you are interested in joining the meeting as a guest, please private message me with your name, as it would appear in a Zoom call, and your email address.     We will then forward you the proper meeting information and I can record your name to know to let you in Tuesday from the Zoom waiting room.   Please do not use the ID and password in the original post as it has changed.  Thanks

[mtaylor]

Bill, 

Is one still able to dial in per Chuck's original post?  No mike or smartphone here.

[Bill Brown]

 No Mark, we changed the meeting ID.     PM me with your email and I will email you the join details.    

[Justin P.]

Thanks Bill and Chuck for the invite, it was a great talk and I throughly enjoyed it.

[Chuck Seiler]

On 10/22/2020 at 8:39 AM, knightyo said:

(A little off-topic, but I think you could make a pretty cool kit from this type of ship, Chuck.  Looks like something that would be fantastic entry-level project for beginners).

Model Expo already has.  It's called "Gunboat Philadelphia".  SPITFIRE and PHILADELPHIA were/are virtually identical.

Edited October 29, 2020 by Chuck Seiler

[Bill Brown]

Hello Folks,   

 

The Ship Model Society of New Jersey will be holding its November Meeting on Tuesday, November 24th at 7:00PM ET.   The meeting will again be virtual.

 

Our guest speaker this month will be Dan Lieb, Founder and President of the New Jersey Historical Divers Association.    Dan is also associated with the New Jersey Shipwreck Museum.    Given its strategic location between two major east coast ports, the coast of New Jersey became a graveyard for many ships over the centuries.    Dan's talk will focus on some of these discovered wrecks.     I had the privilege to hear one of Dan's talks some years back and I can say with confidence that his talks are not to be missed.   With that said, if you would like to attend the SMSNJ November meeting as a guest please PM me with your name and email and I will forward you the meeting logistics which will include the Zoom link.     Hope to see some of you folks next week.   Be well

 

Bill

SMSNJ

 

 

[Kevin Kenny]

Some my pirogue images 

[TBlack]

I thought you were supposed to be working on the Thorn. When did you have time to do this?