about Sail & Steam

the modelist -
I have always been a sailor. Boats form an inseparable part of my life, and over the years, I have sailed in and seen, many boats. Each one had for me an essence, a personality and I don’t mean a soul, as that is more normally reserved for human beings and which was unique and indefinable. Although photographs, shared experiences and tales swapped with friends are wonderful ways to share and transmit this feeling about a boat, I also believe that a unique way to render this feeling is through a model which reflects the personality and details of each boat, enabling us to appreciate it almost as fully as if we had the real thing before our eyes. It is not always easy to find people who think the same way, but when they do, they can appreciate and feel the personality of the boat in the same way that I do. It is to people like these that this page is dedicated to.

A few years ago I began to do ship modelling as an amateur, building a few kits and modified designs. Over time, my skills developed so that the quality of the construction improved significantly and the level of detail that I could render grew to a high standard. Not only am I a proficient sailor, having sailed in both modern and classic boats, but I have inevitably got to know the inner workings of every part, the ropes, blocks, their shape, colour and size, so that I can replicate them on each model, true to scale as in reality, thus rendering a faithful image of the real thing.

Jorge Oneto