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[stately music]

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- Scott Safranski: For some
reason or other, I love ships.

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When I get the hull formed,
when I'm building,

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and I start to see something

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that stops
looking like a bunch of wood

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and starts
looking like the hull,

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I just think it's beautiful.

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[blows air]
[drill whirrs]

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And we're through.

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I became a reader,

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and that's had a lot
of influence on who I became.

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You know,
I didn't watch so much TV

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and started reading,
and, you know,

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as you build models,
you get better at it.

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The name is Scott Safranski.

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This is where I can hit my
finger with a mallet. [chuckles]

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All sorts of dangers
in this job.

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There has been blood.
[chuckles]

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[blows] Try not to blow it
right into the camera.

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You've counted all the
plastic models I built,

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[plastic clatters]

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along with the wooden ships,
[hammers]

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I'm probably up around 30.

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One of these days, I'm gonna
probably have to either

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part with a couple of them
or build a bigger house.

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[upbeat jig music]

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It becomes a bit
of a jigsaw puzzle,

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and you have to think ahead.

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As you continue to do
through a hobby like this,

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you continue to learn
and make adjustments.

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You know, you learn as you go,
and you get better and better.

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[water splashes]
[cannon fire]

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There are some times
when you start a part of it

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where you've just got to work
for a couple hours

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to get it done
to a stopping point.

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But I probably mostly do half
hour to hour-long sessions,

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after supper in the evening
or something.

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[saw buzzes]

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It may seem stupid, but when
you're putting planks on a ship,

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if you're doing it well,

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and you're getting 'em tight
and all that,

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that can be a lot of fun.

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[upbeat jig music]

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[saw buzzes]

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[bright fiddle music]

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The funny thing is,
when I'm looking at a task,

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if I'm worried about it,
I think about it,

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it usually goes very well.

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If I'm not worried about it,
I don't think about it,

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I, you know, regret it.

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[chuckles] It usually goes
poorly, and then I do it again.

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Sometimes things go wrong,
and you know,

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you say a lot
of really bad stuff.

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[chuckles] You put it down
and you go away from it

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for a couple of weeks.

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[bright pipe music]
[gulls call]

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The <i>San Felipe,</i> which is one
of the latest ones I built,

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the plans were
in another language.

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I've never been certain
what it was.

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And so, I had to do it
without English plans.

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I had drafts, and my solution
was to put 'em up

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all around the room,

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so that then I could look
from one to the other and say,

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okay, this is what it
appears to be here,

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but from this angle,

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I can see more clearly
what's really going on

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and I could build it that way.

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Oh, probably a pretty close
to where we need to be here.

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There is a story
behind every one of them.

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There's people who sailed them.

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I'm not an engineer, but you can
see the engineering in it.

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And you can see
the kinds of forces

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it was designed to deal with
and counter.

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And I just think that's neat.

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[bright fiddle music]