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 ...

The Western Reserve Model Yacht Club announced it will start its 17th year of racing model sailboats in Northeast Ohio on May 10 at SPIRE Academy in Geneva. The club runs local competitions every ...

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 — ...

The Western Reserve Model Yacht Club is starting its second season of sailing at SPIRE Institute in Geneva. Previously, from 2009 through the season of 2019, the club sailed at Painesville Kiwanis ...

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 ...

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 ...

While model yachting has been around for a very long time, dating back to the early 1800s with vane steering yachts raced in The Queen's Basin at Green Park in London, it has surged in popularity in ...

With a wet forecast, sometimes you can be lucky and get away with it. Not today, as it was already raining at the start and ...

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 ...