Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...

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 ...

“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 ...

For years, Karl Lovelace felt adrenaline pump through him when he raced high-powered, flat-bottomed speed boats at 110 miles per hour in front of spectators on Utah lakes. But then he got married, had ...

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 ...

The Suncoast Scale Model Boat Club (SSMBC) was originally formed in 1976, making it the first club of it kind in the Tampa Bay Area. The founders, Harold “Mike” Sriver and Lew Zerfas started meets at ...

MANITOWOC - Manitowoc's Wisconsin Maritime Museum will play host to the longest-running juried model boat contest in the nation Saturday and Sunday. Modelers from eight states will display 35 ships ...

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.

Steve Larem held his skateboard Sunday as he watched the powered model boats race around Lake George, some reaching speeds of more than 90 miles per hour. “I like watching the speed of them going ...

A steam-powered cargo boat, a tugboat that traveled the Great Lakes, a railroad barge, and a replica of the Independence, a packet boat built for the Erie Canal Village in Rome, New York, inspired ...