Building your own boat may not be as difficult as you think. A man in Spring Lake wants to help make that simpler for people through his business.

Building model boats is a great way for hobbyists of any age to learn patience, engineering and dexterity in a single assembly kit.

Build a gravity-fueled soapbox racer, assemble a model airplane or maybe even a floatable boat. Think those handmade playthings are beyond your skillset?

Building model boats is a great way for hobbyists of any age to learn patience, engineering and dexterity in a single assembly kit.

Teams from Rocking the Boat assemble the three-and-a-half-foot-long model vessels from components. The group plans to conduct workshops to teach people how to build their own.