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 ...

On a recent Sunday inside the Golden Gate Park clubhouse that’s home to the 128-year-old Model Yacht Club and its collection of handmade wooden vessels, the next generation of mariners and their DIY ...

For members of one yacht club, they don’t bother to keep their vessels moored by the shore, instead they keep them docked in the back of their cars. These members of the Western Reserve Model Yacht ...

Tiny sailboats rocked from side to side Sunday morning along the Petaluma River, at the mercy of the momentary wind gusts. “Any wind is good,” George Pedrick, 65, who lives in Point Richmond, said.

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 — ...

<bt>Tom Causin keeps five sailboats at his Ashburn home, though he does not live anywhere near a lake. The boats are stored inside his house until the second and fourth Sundays of the month and ...

CAMBRIDGE — “The Art of Model Boat Building” premiered in the galleries at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on March 4. This exhibition features area modelers who will display and discuss their work ...

Carlisle's Model Boat Club has hosted a fun day to show off some of its member's greatest vessels. More than sixty models were on display at Talkin Tarn near Brampton, many of them exact replicas of ...

THERE has been a model boat club in Rawdon, near Leeds, since about 1930. However, due to its secluded location, hidden away on the top of a hill, close to Rawdon Billing, very few people are aware of ...

The Valletta Waterfront Laguna is the venue for a second regatta for model sailing boats today. The regatta, organised by the Malta Model Boating Association (MMBA), is being organised following the ...

“During the 1930s, Detroit had a large complement of highly skilled workers supplying the automobile industry capable of making just about anything,” wrote Kent Lund. “In the early 1930s a group of ...