Man sets sail with replicas of world's most famous ships
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Posted 6:51PM on Tuesday, October 8, 2002
LAGRANGE - Hank Boggess has been building miniature boats for the last 20 years -- plank by plank. <br>
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The ships are close to exact replicas in nearly every detail -- from the red carpet that leads to the upstairs of a Mississippi riverboat to the row boats of the 1851 Yacht American. <br>
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The 58-year-old subdivision developer's also models include the U.S.S. Monitor and the U.S.S. Constituion. <br>
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Conspicuously absent among Boggess's is the Titanic, which he says he simply has no desire to build. Boggess says, ``You turn on the TV and it's everywhere. It only sailed for ten days.''