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 ...

For years, Karl Lovelace felt adrenaline pump through him when he raced high-powered, flat-bottomed speed boats at 110 miles per hour in front of spectators on Utah lakes. But then he got married, had ...

The San Francisco Model Yacht Club is cheaper than most yacht clubs, perhaps because it doesn’t have a bar. It costs $30 a year, plus a $10 initiation fee for new members. For that, the price of two ...

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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’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, ...

Kenneth Talbot says the installation of a platform could end a more than 90-year tradition of sailing model boats A model boat sailing club says it fears for its future after plans to build a wildlife ...

Every summer Sunday for more than 25 years, Victor Cotte, a disabled former machinist from the Bronx, has traveled down to Central Park to indulge his great passion – model boating. Cotte spent long ...

Sheffield model boat enthusiasts have spoken of their frustration over problems using a park boating lake where they have sailed their craft since 1937. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

A swan is on the rampage in the town of Needham Market, U.K., smashing eight model boats, which are worth up to $25,000 Cdn, each. Cliff Galsworthy, who is the treasurer of the Gipping Valley Model ...

In the early days of Dublin Radio Model Boat Club, we had more than 60 members, but now we’re down to a dozen or so. Young people nowadays don’t have the interest like there used to be. Which is sad ...

For as long as anyone can remember, they have been chugging harmlessly around. But now the scaled-down steamboats of a group of seaside modelling enthusiasts have struck their own iceberg - in the ...