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 ...

I tried operating a boat on Conservatory Water, the pond famous for model boating. It’s harder than it looks. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll look at the return of model boating in ...

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 ...

Last year, roughly 749,000 new boats were sold in the United States. Only four of them came from Burger Boat Co. in Manitowoc, Wis., but nobody there was complaining. After all, the price tag of a ...

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 ...

For a few hours most Saturdays, a handful of skippers carefully steer yachts across Louisville’s Harper Lake. Though they behave similarly to full size sailboats, the yachts are about 3 feet long — ...