Which model boat kits are best? Building model boats is a great way for hobbyists of any age to learn patience, engineering and dexterity in a single assembly kit. These challenging models can come in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Twenty years ago, William “Bill” Gaddes received a model ship building kit as a gesture of thanks ...

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 ...

Which pirate model ship is best? Jack Sparrow’s Black Pearl. Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. Charles Vane’s Ranger. Seeing any of these ships coming over the horizon during the golden age of piracy ...

Marcy Consalvo was 9 when his parents gave him a boat-building kit. More than 70 years later, he is still building boats, from clipper ships to Gloucester schooners, and for 20 years he’s been helping ...

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 ...