Snipe Worlds, a Long List of Great Venues and Big Names
On Tuesday, October 29, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at 13:00 (local time), the Class flag will be raised for the first race of the 2024 Snipe World Championship.
Luis Borba passed away today, September 4, at the age of 62.
This is not meant to be a sermon. But an invitation to reflect. The Board likes to see that there are many races with so many boats around the world.
The Snipe Class has always been used by World Sailing to test new ideas, though not all of their experiments work out.
We have learned from a reliable spy (who must of course remain anonymous) that an Italian sailmaker is now developing sails with state of the art Formula 1 technology: Flow-Vis.
Due to a malfunction of the SCIRA e-mail server, today an additional 1424 Rule Change proposals were received by the SCIRA office, adding to the 24 already received and posted…
Everyone knows who Robert Scheidt is. Certainly one of the best sailors in the history of sailing, an athlete with a very long and impressive list of successes.
From the end of the 1950s and during the 1960s, the Circolo Nautico Rapallo hosted an important Snipe regatta.
Justin Callahan, at the beginning of January, with his twin brother Mitchell, won the Junior Worlds in Miami after an impressive series of races. His hometown is Miami, but he…
Our Class enjoys excellent health thanks to many people who commit themselves daily to make it great. Two memorable events in January were great reminders of this: the Snipe Junior…
84 teams from 14 countries (including 3 from outside Europe) are registered for the 2023 Open European Championship (Gargnano, Lake Garda, Italy August 21-27). These are excellent numbers that come…
A boat is racing from her preparatory signal ...
Anders Kongstad from the Espergaerde Snipe Fleet, Denmark. He joined an international competition of the Snipe Class for the first time in 2021 at the European Championship in Split, Croatia,…
Gonzalo Diaz Sr., the “Old Man” as he was lovingly known to all of us, left us Friday morning at his home in Miami surrounded by his loved ones. It’s…
Alfredo Gonzalez, from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, won the 2022 Snipe World Championship with his crew Cristian Sanchez…