“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 ...

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 ...

An extraordinarily detailed 12-foot replica of the sister ship to the ill-fated Lusitania has sold for a record £162,000. The beautifully-crafted 1:64 scale model of the luxury British liner RMS ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Han Minghua checks a Red Boat model at the workshop of Jiaxing Minghua Ship Model Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Yuxin Town of Jiaxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 13, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua) ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Missing pieces of a miniature model boat buried with ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun have been ...