Witness the fascinating process of building a pirate ship model entirely from matchsticks, complete with hand-crafted paper ...

John McElwee of Syosset with his model of a 2,000 year-old fishing boat. (Photo by Chris Boyle) The Long Island Ship Model Society has been around since 1966 and works diligently to preserve an art ...

Ships come in many shapes and sizes—including ones that fit in bottles. No one knows this better than Jim Goodwin, a retired geologist who for 25 years has been perfecting the maritime tradition of ...

Lowell North learned to sail as a teenager in Southern California. By age 14, he was already using a scissors to reshape the mainsail of his Star class racing boat and make it go faster. Malin Burnham ...

A MODEL ship maker from Ferndown is celebrating the completion of his latest five year project – a seven-foot-long HMS Campbeltown. Tony Ansell, of Ford Close, has been making working scale models of ...