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 ...

Meet the members of the Sarasota Model Yacht Club, who find purpose, rivalry and plenty of laughter steering their "toy boats ...

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 ...

Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...