Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...

Clint Chase, from Saco, Maine, knows how to make a really great boat. “The first thing I do is design a really fantastic boat, and then I figure out how to kit it,” he says, in the video above.

The Annapolis Maritime Museum’s Box of Rain Build-a-Boat program, teaching area youth to construct a boat from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit, kicked off in January and will run through March.

These made to order $950 kits will allow you to build your very own mini boat at home. American company Rapid Whale has created "Mini Boat," a miniature boat measuring 6ft in length and around 50kg in ...