BATTLE CREEK --Between the smoke rising out of smokestacks and lines of rivets in the hulls, Jack East's model boats are impressive to see. But East isn't one to explain everything. "That is my secret ...

To quote author Arthur Ransome, "The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place." Glenn Williams knows a bit about building boats ...

When Katie McNally, from Ontario, N.Y., donated nine model boats to the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum in the autumn of 2011, one was held back. It wasn't finished. It was the hull of the model of ...

NORTH PORT -- If you're a fan of boating, you might want to set your sails to catch a windfall from Earl Gardner. The Harbor Cove resident has spent the better part of the last seven years lovingly ...

His wife calls it his "mistress," with whom he spends many happy hours and for which he has great passion. Greg Zimmerman, a resident of Monarch Landing in Naperville, takes tremendous pleasure in ...

LUMBERTON — It often takes years for Dave Bullock to finish building one of his model ships. But when he’s finished, Bullock has a finely detailed replica of an historic wooden sailing vessel, scratch ...

J. Stephen Murray is a big man in the little world of model ship building. The 49-year-old craftsman from the Isle of Man, whose family has been building scale versions of the world`s greatest tall ...

On Saturdays, as Tony Colton builds miniature ships that will eventually sit inside narrow-necked bottles, the first question he gets from visitors to the USS Constitution Museum is usually the same. ...

Boxborough's Ross Hunter made his first model ship back in 1958 at age 10. He was living in Holland at the time and one day his father, a model ship builder himself, took Hunter and his brother to a ...

Jayne Smith's grandson, Preston, is 5 years old and seeing the Great Lakes and lake freighters for the first time. He's from Mesa, Arizona, and there's not much water there. "With the big ships, his ...

Forget for a moment about iPods, Wiis and Harry Potter, and consider how sailors once devoted countless hours to putting a ship in a bottle. Yep, building a whole miniature clipper ship inside a ...