by Vince Casalaina Dick had a long history with the Snipe Class. He started sailing Snipes more than 40 years ago. He was Fleet Captain, District Governor, Chair of a North American’s held at Richmond, volunteer on countless projects and of course a winner of Fleet 12’s Bird Brain Award. I had the opportunity last…
Vince Casalaina, with the support of the Snipe Class, years ago produced a video called “Traditions Build Winners”. Here is an excerpt from that video And here are some…
Thinking about how to roll tack and jibe your Snipe. Take a minute and watch George Szabo (Quantum Sails) with Eric Wilcox put the rail in the water go…
Whiskeytown, CA – Memorial Day weekend, May 26-27, 2018 After sailing on San Francisco Bay sailing at Wiskeytown makes for a great change of scenery. Located in the Siskiyou mountains…
By Vince Casalaina DVD available! It’s official. The Serious Sailing, Serious Fun: Traditions Build Winners documentary is now ready for distribution to the Class. There were times when it…
The Serious Sailing, Serious fun documentary rough edit has its first public screening! After more than three years of work, the first public screening of the six and a half…
Mark started sailing Snipes when he was 13. He was lucky to have a strong local fleet of top Snipe sailors like Earl Elms, Tom Nute and Dave Ullman that…
Earl started sailing Snipes in Mission Bay in 1963 when he got out of the Navy. He joined a small but active fleet sailing mostly Eichenlaub and Varalyay Snipes.
It's January and that means Las Vegas time on Mission Bay in San Diego. Fleet 495 is resurrecting a fund raiser that combines two days of racing…
This is a rough cut of the Serious Sailing Serious Fun Traditions Build Winners documentary. It is meant to give you a look at the content and should not be…
You can help the Serious Sailing, Serious Fun documentary on the Snipe Class by liking the movie trailer on the International Movie Trailer Festval site below. The winner gets $5,000…
Torben Grael grew up with sailboats as part of the family tradition. His grandfather sailed 6m’s and his uncles won the Snipe World Championship three times. It wasn’t easy finding…
Andrew Campbell grew up sailing Snipes in Mission Bay, with his parents and his brother – sometimes as skipper, sometimes as crew but always with a lot of fun. As…
Every other year, the best Women Snipers gather for the Women's World Championship. In 2010 that was St. Petersburg, Florida in November and the temperature was a balmy 80º. Out…
Jerry Thompson started sailing Snipes in 1953. In the intervening years he’s competed in 46 Nationals and many more international regattas. Jerry talks about the Varalyay brothers who built his…