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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a balmy Sarasota afternoon, with a crisp breeze energizing the 30 sailors racing their pretty boats on calm water. The competition was going smoothly until two ships collided on the final turn ...