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 ...

Thomas Elwood Tragle, 67, a renowned builder of ship models whose replica of the USS Monitor is on display at the U.S. Navy Museum in Norfolk, died Monday, Aug. 7, in Hampton. Mr. Tragle began model ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firelands Historical Society Museum of Norwalk, in Huron County, has announced the acquisition of three model ships built by world renowned model ship builder Robert Bruckshaw, who was from Norwalk.

NEW BEDFORD -- Almost every student who has gone through the city's school system knows about Captain Ahab and the famed great white whale, Moby Dick. And when they remember the book, they also ...