A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved on its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of ...

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 ...

Thousands of people drive along Route 1 in Searsport every year. You've probably noticed the big red and white striped "lighthouse" with attached gift shop that says Model Ships out front. But there's ...

The primary work of an experimental model basin is the estimation, with reasonable accuracy, of the resistance and horse-power of full-sized ships from experiments with small and inexpensive models.