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 ...

WORCESTER — You might say Sept. 8 is Skipper Day in Worcester, or at least at the Regatta Point Community Sailing Center on Lake Quinsigamond. That's the day when several dozen skippers will show up ...

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 ...

John McElwee of Syosset with his model of a 2,000 year-old fishing boat. (Photo by Chris Boyle) The Long Island Ship Model Society has been around since 1966 and works diligently to preserve an art ...

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' ...

Catching wind in sails that only stand about two feet in height, the Golden Triangle Model Yacht Club members race model sailboats in Tampa Bay waterways.

If there had been little model sailors in the little model sailboats, they would have been dealing with some big waves. Over the weekend, some of the biggest names in small boat sailing converged on ...

More than 100 family and friends of the late Charles M. Leighton and David T. Shelby gathered at the Windsor sailing pond on a cool, overcast afternoon in December to pay tribute to two lifelong ...

At a fountain in the Jardin des Tuileries, a Parisian sculptor named Alan Corvez rents model sailboats to mariners of all ages. As the weather gets nicer and the trees bloom, business improves for ...