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 ...

“During the 1930s, Detroit had a large complement of highly skilled workers supplying the automobile industry capable of making just about anything,” wrote Kent Lund. “In the early 1930s a group of ...

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 ...

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 ...