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Istanbul’s new ferry design

Municipality of Istanbul’s City Lines, just released the images of their new ferry design. Most of the ferries which were built in 70’s and 80’s were donated to other shore towns, where they will...

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Adam Werka’s maritime paintings

If you are interested in maritime, there pieces of art will fascinate you. Meet Adam Werka and his maritime paintings. Adam Werka painted famous sailing ships and merchant fleet of Poland mainly. He has...

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Courage of an ignorant…

The term “Courage of an ignorant”  is a Turkish expression which is used when someone does something without thinking about it too much. -How could you do that? -Oh it’s just courage of an...

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Revell shares your dreams!

As you already know, Revell is one of the top plastic model companies with a huge variety of models in different areas. Now Revell wants to get your ideas to make new scale model...

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Martin Machado’s Six Months At Sea

Yesterday I stumbled upon Martin Machado’s video. He shows us his regular life at sea on a container ship like visual diary more than a documentary. As many other sailors, he has a passtime...

Lady Torfrida model by Jürgen Willing

 While we were discussing about a plan on the site, i learned that our follower Jürgen Willing just finished a scale model of Lady Torfrida . He was kind to share pictures of the...

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M/V Croatia ran aground in Ereğli

After unloading scrap metal cargo to Erdemir Port, the cargo ship Croatia left the dock to anchor in the harbor. But heavy seas and strong winds dragged the ship to the shore. Two tugs...

S/S Explorer: A steamer saved by enthusiasts!

Whenever i have time, i like to research historic vessels on web and sometimes i come across very interesting ships, stories and people. Few days ago, i met with Pete MacDhùghaill from S/S Explorer...