The model stands approximately 4-1/2 feet long and 3-1/2 feet high and has full rigging with figures of Cape Verdean sailors working on deck, authentic ship’s colors and miniature anchors ...

Our favorite model boat kit is the Tamiya Models US Navy PBR31, a remarkably accurate and high-quality kit from one of the world’s best makers. Considerations when choosing model boat kits ...

This model represents the fishing schooner Fredonia, designed by the well-known yacht designer Edward Burgess of Boston. Burgess designed several America’s Cup racing yachts, including the Puritan, ...

This model represents the fishing schooner Fredonia, designed by the well-known yacht designer Edward Burgess of Boston. Burgess designed several America’s Cup racing yachts, including the Puritan, ...

About 10 years before Dickman’s research project, Jim Hand, a former assistant registrar at UW, wrote “The Six-Masted Schooner Wyoming,” a poem about the sinking of the ship. Hand’s poem resurfaced ...

Detail of the model boat Paul Gran, a summer resident of Rockport, built of the Evelina M. Goulart, which is housed at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. The model is now on display there, too.