James Pitt and Jay MacMaster’s art form is very small and getting smaller. The men, both from San Diego, build model wooden ships, a craft that has been around for centuries but is currently facing a ...
On display were side-oared Ottoman galleys that once dominated the Mediterranean, small merchant boats common to local waters, and the passenger ferries that became icons of 20th-century Istanbul.
A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy's small wood sander. Ralahy, eyes ...
When Kevin Graham replied to a collector's ad selling a "few" model ships, he stumbled upon a treasure trove. "We negotiated a price over the phone and I went there and had a look, and he had 150 of ...
The Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria they’re not. Heck, they’re not even the Discovery, the Beaver and the Exact. They’re models of the three ships, which, perhaps, is part of the problem. What?
The roomful of historic maritime murals hadn’t been seen in its glory for nearly four decades — even though it sat in a popular San Francisco museum — deteriorating just a floor above the models of ...
A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy’s small wood sander. Ralahy, eyes ...
A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy's small wood sander. Ralahy, eyes ...