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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Upper Uwchlan >> The national championship regatta, hosted by the Chester Springs Model Yacht Group, is being held at Marsh Creek State Park through Sunday. Click here to see more photos.During the ...

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 ...

Tiny sailboats rocked from side to side Sunday morning along the Petaluma River, at the mercy of the momentary wind gusts. “Any wind is good,” George Pedrick, 65, who lives in Point Richmond, said.