"model boat" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a small replica or representation of a boat, often used for display or as a toy. Example: "I spent the whole weekend building a model boat, carefully painting every detail and attaching tiny sails to the mast."
Model boating has been a fixture of the lake since 1886 and the Saltwell Park Model Boat Club is the latest organisation to use the lake for this purpose.
We tried the model boat pond, closest to the nest, but no luck.
During weekends, hawk watchers set up telescopes next to the model boat pond inside Central Park.
Here you can watch as members of the Model Boat Club race miniature power boats and sailboats.
Passers-by peer at a collection of unusual items — like a Bill Clinton doll on an antique model boat.
The Treasure Cove area will include a casting pool for children, radio-controlled model boat races and a live-fish exhibit.
Contests are generally three days and go like this: two partners are drawn to go out in a 20-foot Ranger-model boat the first day; a new draw is held for different partners the second day; and the performers who make the cut draw again for the third day.
GLAZED by the gloom of an afternoon rain, Central Park is more deserted than usual, especially around the model-boat pond.
NEW YORK SHIP AND BOAT MODEL FESTIVAL, an annual event that celebrates the traditional art of model-boat making, tomorrow and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the South Street Seaport, South and Fulton Streets, Lower Manhattan.
ANNUAL SHIP AND BOAT MODEL FESTIVAL, where young salts can learn about model-boat making and visit historic ships docked at the South Street Seaport Museum, Pier 16, Fulton and Beekman Streets, Lower Manhattan.
Mr. Otway is a courtly polymath of 55 who has been, at various times, a theater operator, a lawyer, a harp player, a model-boat builder and a war photographer.
