What: I build wooden model ships. Who: Damian Valentine, 81, of Chandler, is a retired service manager and electronics business owner from Illinois. How the collection began: I started building them ...

In his warehouse in Philadelphia sits Jonah Eaton's 42ft (13m) wooden boat. Over the past eight years Eaton has devoted much of his life to building the vessel by hand, with scores of volunteers ...

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. ...

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 ...

When the late Charles Parsons took on the task of building a model ship, it was no small undertaking -- generally taking him between 18 months and four years to complete. With painstaking detail, the ...

Press photo Since Soviet times, the Polar Odyssey maritime club in Petrozavodsk has made exact replicas of 17th-19th century sailboats. In three decades this group of enthusiasts has constructed more ...

For Michael Stoddart, building a ship in a bottle all comes down to finding the right vessel. "My experience is that you need to have a bottle that inspires you," he said. "A nice, clean bottle which ...