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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PEABODY — By now, most of the boats in the harbors of Salem, Beverly and Marblehead have been taken in for the winter. But if you want to see ships, sailboats, destroyers, submarines and more, you're ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scale model of an 18th-century ship has sailed off with some unexpected booty following an auction in Vancouver. Seventy-two-year-old Victor Jankovic hoped his 2.4-metre long, nearly two-metre tall ...

Ronald M. Roberti, a commercial airline pilot whose fascination with the mechanical world began with building and flying model airplanes as a child and ended in retirement with construction of ...