For hours a day, George Karitianos sits at a workbench in the corner of his garage and applies immense patience and tiny tools to an extraordinary avocation. "I've been going nuts with this," he said, ...

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. ...

For 30 years Mark Sutherland has fashioned New England's maritime history from blocks of wood and bits of bone. Part shipwright, part folk artist, he builds ships of all sizes from intricately ...