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Sing to the tune of Jingle Bells, while raising a glass to the hope of more sailing in 2022! Cheers, Carol and Pietro (Drawing by Paolo Cardoni) Dashing through the waves, across a sunlit bay Out to the course we sail, laughing all the way HA HA HA! Starting guns go off, making spirits bright What fun…
by Luis Soubie – SCIRA Commodore (From the Snipe Bulletin Autumn 2021/Winter 2022) Hello friends, A year ago, we were in our first year of a…
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The 2021 Snipe Hall of Fame Inductees continue to top the list of who’s who in the sailing world. SCIRA is proud to induct these 5…
by John D. Rose The other night I watched an old (1955) Alfred Hitchcock movie “To Catch a Thief” starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly – filmed on…
The second edition of Steering the Course, World Sailing’s global women’s sailing festival, is currently underway in the Southern Hemisphere. To mark the occasion, World Sailing has published four…
Congratulations to Augie Diaz, great sailor and great man! The U.S. National Sailing Hall of Fame selected eleven sailors in 2021 to join the…
It seems like an eternity since the 2018 European Championship in Pori, Finland, when the European secretaries, after listening to Marko Marinovic’s presentation, voted for Split, Croatia, as the venue…
(From the Snipe Bulletin – Summer 2021) Hello friends, Despite our best wishes, at this time of the year it already seems that our 2021 is…
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When Del Castillo Brothers win When Luis and Diego win https://www.snipe.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/WhatsApp-Video-2021-07-25-at-20.13.48.mp4 When Kathleen and Ernesto win 🙂 …
When I heard George Szabo was coming east (again) to do a clinic at Cottage Park Yacht Club (host for the 2021 Western Hemisphere and Orient Championship, and only…
Lisa Pline – Snipe US Nationals Regatta Chair 30 years apart. by Lisa and Alex Pline (from teampline.org) Whew! Wow, June was a busy, but successful month…
by Luis Soubie I have the sad honor to write about the life of my friend and fellow Snipe sailor, Carlos Vilar Castex. He was a person whom I…
(From Scuttlebutt Sailing News) by Lynn Fitzpatrick Four Miami Snipe fleet crews rarely posted a double-digit score during the 2021 Snipe U.S. National Championship as they…