Vol. 65, No. 4 winter 2020
290 Honoring Clayton Feldman and Robert Friedman
T e Nautical Research Guild very recently honored two of its members for their outstanding contributions to the Guild and to the wider community of maritime researchers and model makers.
T e Guild acknowledged Clayton A. Feldman, MD, for his eff orts over many years to add to the knowledge base of maritime researchers and model ship builders through his publication of magazines, books, practicums and articles.
Dr. Feldman’s publication of Seaways: Journal of Maritime History and Research and Seaways’ Ships in Scale magazines made it possible for the knowledge and skills of so many skilled craſt smen and authors to be passed on to others and preserved for posterity. His publishing eff orts have encouraged and allowed many great authors to achieve the satisfaction of seeing their words and work in print to be shared worldwide. Saving the intellectual property of Model Ship Builder magazine when it ceased publication preserved additional valuable information for future generations of modelers and researchers.
He also became a social networking pioneer
through developing means of sharing emails among subscribers and ship modelers around the world, leading later to the Seaways’ Ships in Scale forum that provides a mechanism for circulating information within a community in hours instead of months.
Dr. Feldman also was the fi rst publisher to put model ship building and research magazine back issues on CDs so modelers could access back issues from their computer and preserve readily accessible information too valuable to discard. Today, the entire Seaways’, Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazine library is available on digital media for the benefi t of future generations.
His books, Fair American and Modeling an Armed Virginia Sloop of 1768, are still considered the standard by which any model of those ships is measured.
Simultaneously, the Guild acknowledged Mr. Robert Friedman for his eff orts over many years of publishing the outstanding, thoroughly researched SeaWatchBooks publications that have benefi tted the entire model ship building community. His work has made it possible for the knowledge and skills of many skilled craſt smen and authors to be passed on to others and preserved for posterity. T rough his foresight much valuable information is now preserved for future generations of modelers and researchers. Without his eff orts, many infl uential authors would never have seen their work in print and the world would have been deprived of the benefi ts of their skills and knowledge.
Mr. Friedman also has freely shared his personal knowledge and has off ered many suggestions to present and past members of the Board for the sole purpose of helping the Guild become a better organization.
His legacy will live on through the books
SeaWatchBooks has published; books that have helped model builders gain the knowledge and develop the skills to assure their own future legacies.
T e Nautical Research Guild thanks both these outstanding individuals for their many years of membership, the help they have provided to the Guild and the wider community of maritime researchers and model makers, and their outstanding record of publication.
— Paul E. Fontenoy
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