“During the 1930s, Detroit had a large complement of highly skilled workers supplying the automobile industry capable of making just about anything,” wrote Kent Lund. “In the early 1930s a group of ...

The Cincinnati Model Boat Club is hosting their 2022 International Model Power Boat Association district points race this weekend. The Cincinnati Model Boat Club is hosting their 2022 International ...

How long have you been doing this? Since 1975. My dad started my brother and myself building tissue and balsa airplanes, and we had a lake out behind the house (near Waukegan, Ill.). It was more ...

DUNDEE, Mich. — Are you a boating enthusiast, or maybe love model vehicles? An event this weekend in Dundee, Michigan, celebrates both. Founded in 1972, The Maumee Valley Model Boat Club celebrates ...

When Kevin Graham replied to a collector's ad selling a "few" model ships, he stumbled upon a treasure trove. "We negotiated a price over the phone and I went there and had a look, and he had 150 of ...

Some people design and build their own boats while others buy ready-made ones. The club's fleet runs the gamut in terms of speed, size and style. There are vintage speedboats, sailboats, tugboats, ...

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, ...

For 90-year-old Bud Parks, building model boats is more than just a hobby. "It's been a lifesaver for me," says Parks, a widower whose wife, Mackie, died in 2020. Mark Kennedy is a veteran columnist.

Every Sunday morning, model boats take to the water on Cork’s Atlantic Pond. Donal O’Keeffe meets members of the Atlantic Model Boat Group. Members of the Atlantic Model Boat Group with some of their ...

A Merseyside park is home to a "lifeline" club that is decades old. At the heart of Newsham Park you will find a small club that meets twice every week and has been doing so for the last 50 years.