“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If it seems like forever ago since you last noticed miniature boats floating over Central Park's Conservatory Water pond, that's because the tiny crafts have not graced the body of water in five years ...

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 ...

Ollie and Harry built the boats which are replica's for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror which discovered the largest ice shelf of Antarctica Model ships built by two young ...