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by Pietro Fantoni News for 2018: we will have an international Snipe ranking. Not a test, like in 2016, but for real. At the end of November I went with Daniela Semec (our ranking expert) to Lausanne, Switzerland on Lake Geneva, home of the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Museum. We were invited to discuss about the…
Editor's note: Dodo Gorla is one of the best Italian sailors of all time and a true sportsman. By Giorgio "Dodo" Gorla I was born on Lake Orta (North-West of…
Montevideo, November 23-26, 2017 Snipe training Camp was a great event Yacht Club Uruguayo was the sailing venue, a great place with fantastic sailing conditions . 12 boats from Uruguay…
[caption id="attachment_20012" align="alignnone" width=""]Long Beach, 1981 Snipe Worlds: Micky Costa and Nucho Sisti[/caption]by Micky Costa It was 1979 and being 16 years old I had the offer from the well…
By Antonio Bari - Rules Committee Chairman Serious Sailing is part of our motto (the other side, serious fun, is not the responsibility of the Rules Committee...) And Serious Sailing…
by Pietro Fantoni - SCIRA Vice Commodore Compliance with Class Rules is critical to ensure that a Class does not lose credibility. If class rules are not respected and they…
Brynjulf Romslo has worked for years to write down the story of the Snipe Class in Norway with the help of many Snipe sailors around Norway. It…
Read the latest Snipe Bulletin – Fall 2017 Cover photo: Matias Capizzano…
[caption id="attachment_19493" align="alignnone" width=""]Photo of Mechtild and Jacques Romain being presented with the trophy in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland by Patricia Retson, Brand Heritage Manager of Highland Park Whisky Distillery who…
by Pietro Fantoni, SCIRA Vice Commodore (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano) In La Coruna we split, for the first time in the history of the Snipe World Championship, the boats…
by Cesar Travado (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano) A new scoring system was used for the 2016 Europeans and the Worlds 2017. It consists, as most of you know, on…
by Nicholas Grael I have participated on the 3 last editions of the Snipe Jr. Worlds (Rio 2013, Talamone 2015 and Coruña 2017), and even though this edition had a…
Snipe: origen, present i futur Barcelona, July 11, 2017 Avui a la inauguració de l’exposició Snipe: origen, present i futur. Amb la recuperació del San Fernando. El Snipe va…
The Summer issue is out!…
by Kim Couranz (from spinsheet.com) Dang it! We’ve all been there. You just had to cover that one competitor, no matter which way they went. You just had…