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Mahon 1956, Snipe Festival
Mahon, Menorca, Spain, 1956 (Source: I love Snipe Class Menorca)…
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Articles, Advices & Education
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2021 – 2024 Racing Rules of Sailing
The 2021 – 2024 edition of World Sailing’s Racing Rules of Sailing have been published and will come into effect on 1 January 2021. World Sailing…
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Polish Nationals – Video
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Best Practices for Running a COVID-compliant Regatta
By Kristin Mullins, Regatta Co-Chair (and epidemiologist with University of Maryland Medical Center) & Lisa Pline, Annapolis Snipe Fleet Captain (Source: Annapolis Snipe Fleet 532) Recently…
30 Years of Snipe Sailing
by Xandi Paradeda (originally published on quantumsails.com) Quantum sail consultant, sailmaker, and accomplished Snipe sailor, Xandi Paradeda, reflects on the development of the Snipe class over…
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Snipe Sailing, and Writing about it
by Carol Cronin (from her website Carol Newman Cronin) Ordinarily, a weekend regatta wouldn’t rate any special announcement… but this is no ordinary summer, so today…
by Carol Cronin
“Tifeo” is Sailing
I-15782 “Tifeo” is sailing again in Monfalcone with Mauro Pelaschier and Luisa Spanghero…
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National Geographic – June 1945
From Harrison Gill III FB page National Geographic – June 1945 article on TVAs “Great Lakes of the South”. Tennessee teenagers rigging Snipes on Lake Chickamauga Seventy-Five years ago!…
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Snipe Training in Miami
https://www.facebook.com/100674814692261/videos/2561398293960824/ From Miami Snipes FB page…
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1957 Italian Senior and Junior Nationals
Bon II – Giorgio Brezich & Franco Ostoich Riva del Garda, July 13-24, 1957 From Luisa Spanghero archives:…
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New Wooden Snipe Under Construction
Joan Fernandez is building a new wooden Snipe, in Matarò, Spain. He is an expert builder and specialist in numerical control. This wooden boat is built with the latest technology.
How to Protect a Mast from Inversion
by Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz 28814 started in March 1995 with either a Proctor Miracle or a Junior Sidewinder (worst than the proctor miracle) which I inverted several times…
Le 1er Tournoi international de Snipes (1952)
A rare video of an international regatta, held in Monaco (Monte Carlo) in 1952. The regattas were held in front of the port, with the streets famous for the…
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1961 World Champion Snipe
#13005, built in 1961 by Lippincott Boat Works, Riverton, NJ, USA. Interesting that this boat (#13005) was the actual 1961 World Champion Snipe, sailed by Axel and Eric Schmidt…
by John D. Rose
Snipe Training in Valencia
https://www.facebook.com/alberto.buenoelexpuru/videos/1912057298924167/ First training session of the Fleet #154 Valencia after the lockdown Video by Alberto Bueno Elexpuru…
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