There’s a new way to learn to sail in Seattle, and it doesn’t require a lifejacket or last-minute scrambling under a swinging boom — in fact, you don’t even have to board a boat. It’s pond sailing, ...

INMAN — The captains tightened their grips and focused their eyes as their yachts cut across the water, nearly turning over while racing around the marks. Their sails vibrated as a breeze of up to 10 ...

The San Francisco Model Yacht Club’s members took their radio-controlled boats to The Floathouse docks in Petaluma’s central turning basin to race Sunday morning. Tiny sailboats rocked from side to ...

WORCESTER — You might say Sept. 8 is Skipper Day in Worcester, or at least at the Regatta Point Community Sailing Center on Lake Quinsigamond. That's the day when several dozen skippers will show up ...

Six-year-old Morgan Dall excitedly held her model sailboat after it easily outdistanced other small vessels in a model boat race Sunday in Old Greenwich. Probably just as excited was her father, David ...

The spectators arrive by accident, not yet aware of the roles they’re about to play at Spreckels Lake in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. A group gathers at a picnic table. A couple takes a seat on a ...

IF VIDEOGAMES leave you frazzled and pining for simpler pursuits, putting together a seaworthy model boat and casting off on your nearest pond (or pool) is an easy way to wile away time—and test your ...

A SIX-foot model boat that took a man more than 20 years to complete will be setting sail for the first time. The boat, which is a scaled model of a stream trawler called St Nectan, should take around ...

A model of the USS Constitution is on display at the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing. (Courtesy of MFA Boston) The huge $500 million expansion project at the Museum of Fine Arts hits a major ...