Building boats and community on Calgary lakes, one print at a time

Paul McWilliams anchors the Calgary Model Sailing Association not by winning races, but by building the boats themselves. As ...
Talking Points Memo

Building a Small Sailboat

Last fall I was walking along a Long Island Sound beach with my eight-year old son looking at driftwood. He asked me if we could collect some driftwood to build something with. This was the latest in ...
Hackaday

Simple Autonomy With An RC Boat

[Vlad] wrote in to tell us about his latest project—an RC boat that autonomously navigates between waypoints. Building an autonomous vehicle seems like a really complicated project, but [Vlad]’s build ...
The New York Times

Model-Boat Sailing Returns to Central Park

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 ...
Star Democrat

Model Sailing Club plans RC skipjack races

ST. MICHAELS — The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Model Sailing Club will race model sailing skipjacks on Sunday, Sept. 21, with the public invited to watch from the museum’s waterfront. You must be ...