- 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? I think at six with my dad and my mom. The following year they gave me an Optimist. Since then I never stopped thinking about boats. - 2) Your first time on a Snipe? In 1999, I sailed for the first time on a Snipe. Then in 2000 I started racing.
By Carol Cronin, SnipeToday co-editor Previous articles: Snipe Class and Class Promotion, Snipe Class and Class Promotion 2 .... We continue to receive reports and suggestions…
By Carol Cronin (Where Books meet Boats) A Rod Davis article in the latest Seahorse Magazine got me thinking: why is it that from the outside, mid-life…
The Comodoro Rasco starts Saturday, Feb 2, 2013. The NOR and Sailing Instructions are now available on the Coconut Grove Sailing Club‘s website. See you there!…
As an author and sailor, I tend to prefer books about the sea. Better yet, novels about dinghy sailing… but those are very few and far between*. Here are five…
- 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? Three weeks old in a Star – they had me hanging in a bag on the front of the cockpit. -…
[caption id="attachment_5568" align="alignnone" width=""]Cronin sailed the 2004 Olympics with two other members of the Snipe family, Liz Filter and Nancy Haberland.[/caption]Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in Wired…
[This post originally appeared on Where Books Meet Boats.] USA 30860 is packed up for the winter, headed to the Jibetech “Spa” for her annual fluff…
September 14-16, 2012. Etobicoke Yacht Club, Toronto, Canada: Twenty-two teams completed six races in light air to decide the 2012 Snipe North American champions. On day 1 rain dominated the…
Hyannis, August 25. 21 teams of great Snipe sailing women at US Nationals at Hyannis Yacht Club on Cape Cod. Beautiful breeze for four races today–more tomorrow!…
Hyannis, August 24, 2012. Two races today in 3-6 knots and current running upwind. The left side and staying in fluky pressure lines seemed to pay. Aine McLean Fretwell…
Here are some images sent in by Arturo Marin of the Snipe ManuTara in Valparaiso Harbour, Chile. Angela Herrera, skipper and Gladys Kraft crew.
SCIRA USA reports: “At a recent PanAm Board of Directors conference call it was determined that the same classes that sailed in the 2011 PanAm Games will sail…
Ready for some serious sailing, serious fun in the New York area? The …
In what has become a District 1 tradition, the Jubilee Yacht Club in Beverly, Massachusetts (about an hour north of Boston) hosted an excellent two days of short course racing…