Author Archives: Sophia Matsas

Painting Demonstration – Karen Ponelli

The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum Watch as Karen Ponelli, Maritime Gallery artist, tells us a little bit about herself and her process in this painting demonstration. She has been painting for over 30 years. For over the past…

Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby Dick

A Natural History of Moby Dick Arguably the greatest sea novel ever written, Moby-Dick serves as an ideal benchmark to examine how Americans in the 1850s understood the marine biology and oceanography of the deep sea. No previous reading of…

Introduction to Charts and Basic Navigation: Part 2

Collections Corner Join our Yachts on Exhibit Operations Coordinator, Nicholas Alley, to learn the fundamentals of finding your location using maritime charts and traditional tools. We will cover different types of charts, plotting tools, and how to use a compass…