My grandfather, Alfonso Burgio, makes model navy ships and sailboats in his garage during the warmer months. He can do it himself, but I like to help. Most of the time, I help him get the wood to be ...

Doug Unsold of Waterford holds the scale model of the USS Bentley, a Civil War era gunboat, that he made from scratch. Unsold, a Civil War reenactor, does presentations combining his hobby and history ...

KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP, MI — Dick Bruske has been making model boats since he was a child, and his latest strikes a sentimental chord. For the last six weeks, the 64-year-old Kawkawlin Township resident ...

BOAT BUILDING is a long-winded and tedious business, even when what is going down the slipway is a small craft made from modern materials such as fibreglass, rather than something nailed together out ...

The San Francisco Model Yacht Club is cheaper than most yacht clubs, perhaps because it doesn’t have a bar. It costs $30 a year, plus a $10 initiation fee for new members. For that, the price of two ...

Ernie Pitts first began building model ships in an attempt to reduce his drinking. Almost 60 years later, the decision has proved a good one, with the hobby lasting much longer than the temptation of ...