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 ...

There are a few ways to get an oversize object through the skinny neck of a bottle. A model ship is made to collapse its masts and sails and then be slid through the open mouth. Once the ship's ...

"There is something fascinating about a fully rigged ship inside a glass bottle. People ask me if I broke the bottle, put the ship in and glued the bottle back, or created the bottle around the ...