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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

DF95 National Championship at the Sail Newport public sailing center. Racing starts tomorrow and continues through Sunday. It's the premier national event for the radio-controlled sailboat class.

There are about a dozen yacht clubs on Lake Winnipesaukee, but none like the Back Bay Skippers. The Skippers is a model yacht club whose members build, sail and race radio-controlled model boats — and ...

The ships they're sailing may be tiny, but to model yacht skippers, all they're missing out on is an ocean breeze. About 20 miniature boats were cruising around Lake Woodlands on a recent Saturday as ...

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, ...

A model sailboat that washed up on the rocks in Devondale last week travelled more than 1,000 miles from Maine, United States, where schoolchildren had released it into the ocean with an exciting ...