While my family and I were in San Diego, we came across a sport that I hadn’t heard of before-model yacht racing.

We met up with Bob Dunlap, IOM Fleet Captain of the South Bay Model Yacht Club, who  explained the sport and introduced us to many of the competitors.

Men from all over the country and Canada had traveled to compete in a competition of racing their miniature boats across a small bay around specific obstacles. You could see that this was no simple game to them. This competition would decide who would be going on to the finals, and if one yacht touched another, the transgression was loudly protested.

And these were no ordinary toy boats. They were steered by radio transmission and cost  thousands of dollars.