Newport, RI, USA, July 14, 2024…
With just over 100 days until the Opening Ceremonies on the River Seine, World Sailing has announced an equipment substitution for the mixed doublehanded discipline: the Snipe will replace the…
Newport, RI, April 1, 2024: This summer, Narragansett Bay’s Fleet 17 will be testing out an experimental boat enhancement—and no, it’s not retrofitted foils from Jibetech…
It Takes a Fleet: Narragansett Bay Snipe Sailing Update…
This year, I was lucky enough to fit three regattas into the fall sailing season. Looking back now, they pretty much covered the entire range of raceable Snipe breeze, so…
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Bowing to the inevitable, the 2023 Masters Worlds has added an Under 30 Division to the upcoming regatta in Porto Sherry, Spain.
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Upper Keys Sailing Club was the first to announce their Snipe regatta dates for 2024; the Midwinter Championship will begin on February…
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Inspired by Matias Capizzano’s coverage of the 2023 Western Hemisphere & Asia Championship (WHAC), renowned coach Leandro Spina has started a new…
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Disappointed by the four-boat fleet in the current race around the world (as well as the obvious discomfort of foiling crews), The…
My first conscious memory of the person I so respectfully called “The Old Man” was, appropriately, on the race course; watching his Snipe, sail numbers barely visible, cross the entire…
Key Largo, FL, USA, February 12, 2023…
by Carol Cronin – from her blog “Where Books Meet Boats” I spent last week in San Diego for the Snipe Nationals—and was reminded once again…
by Carol Cronin – from her blog “Where Books Meet Boats” Last weekend, after rounding the windward mark in sixth in the puffiest, shiftiest breeze I’ve…
The only Snipe builder in the U.S. is renowned for the quality and shape of their rudders, and now owner Andrew Pimental has figured out a way to sell twice…
