If there had been little model sailors in the little model sailboats, they would have been dealing with some big waves. Over the weekend, some of the biggest names in small boat sailing converged on ...

On the first and third Sunday of every month, Bellingham’s Chris Jerome wakes up early to set sail on Lake Padden. He doesn’t use a full-size sailboat, but a miniature radio-controlled one.

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, ...