On a cold, blustery day earlier this week—hardly an ideal day for a regatta—a few dozen Johns Hopkins University engineering students showed up at the fountain in front of President Ronald J. Daniels' ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time in Washington when sightseers could amble down to the Mall nearly every Sunday and watch sailboats locked in intense competition. Colorful model boats sailed across the Reflecting ...

Smith is completing and renovating model boats and will donate them to various disabled sailing projects across America including the 2012 Robie Pierce One-Design Regatta for sailors with disabilities ...

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 ...

The Calvert Marine Museum has a hidden gem in the museum’s model boat club. It’s a club where members have a fantastic time mostly racing against other similar sailboats, but also building their own ...

Skip Collingwood shook his head at the thought of more sanding. “This took months,” he said, “about 99% of it was sanding — hours and hours and hours of sanding.” Collingwood was referring to his ...

Members of this yacht club will get their boats in the water the first time on April 13, more than a full month before those at other yacht clubs. Membership in their yacht club is just $25 a year, ...

Long BeachPeter Beck has been a devoted participant at the Model Boat Shop since 2011. In that time, he has built more than 100 boats of varying sizes from four inches to a nine-feet-long, 115-sail ...