J. Stephen Murray is a big man in the little world of model ship building. The 49-year-old craftsman from the Isle of Man, whose family has been building scale versions of the world`s greatest tall ...

His wife calls it his "mistress," with whom he spends many happy hours and for which he has great passion. Greg Zimmerman, a resident of Monarch Landing in Naperville, takes tremendous pleasure in ...

FAIRBANKS — Erich Bergh has been working on a model replica of the Riverboat Nenana since fall 1991. He is almost done. The lifelong Fairbanksan, 57, said he wasn’t even keen on sternwheelers when he ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS - The walls are lined with varying sizes of miniature tools — screwdrivers, pliers, protractors and drill bits. Pictures of the old U.S. Coast Guard Cutter “Maple” hang in plastic sleeves.

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 ...