If you've ever seen a remote-control boat skate across the water—or controlled one yourself—you know it's a good time. These toys can accelerate up to 50 miles per hour, tearing up the waters in your ...

Each pointed a boxy radio control at his own DragonFlite 95, a meter-long vessel with a pointy sail like a shark fin. Sometimes the boats rounded markers made from painted Clorox bottles. Other times, ...

Brad Read looks out his office window across Newport Harbor’s Brenton Cove, observing how the puffs fan across the racecourse that’s spitting distance from his ­public-sailing operation’s docks. Small ...