Ian Rankin has always enjoyed building small model boats but, after a cancer diagnosis, the 82-year-old set himself a new challenge. The great-grandfather has spent the past 12 months hand-crafting a ...

It was a balmy Sarasota afternoon, with a crisp breeze energizing the 30 sailors racing their pretty boats on calm water. The competition was going smoothly until two ships collided on the final turn ...

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 ...

At some point, Paul Birkey says, he is going to write a book. “My story has just been a crazy ride up to now,” he told The News Tribune this week as he wound down operations of his yacht-interior ...

Now there are two places in Newport Beach to see John Wayne’s yacht. Wild Goose, the late actor’s 136-foot World War II minesweeper turned pleasure craft, now sits in miniature inside a case at the ...