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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!…
https://www.facebook.com/100674814692261/videos/2561398293960824/ From Miami Snipes FB page…
Bon II – Giorgio Brezich & Franco Ostoich Riva del Garda, July 13-24, 1957 From Luisa Spanghero archives:…
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.
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…
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…
#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…
https://www.facebook.com/alberto.buenoelexpuru/videos/1912057298924167/ First training session of the Fleet #154 Valencia after the lockdown Video by Alberto Bueno Elexpuru…
Sao Paulo, Brazil Velejada épica em Guarapiranga Jonas E. Chorociejus and Luis Borba…
by John Rose Hooray, this boat has been “missing in action” for a long time! Glad to see it again – I raced against it back in the 1950s…
From Pedro Pires de Lima: “My grandfather Duarte Roboredo, my uncles Carlos Roboredo, Luís Roboredo and Tito Roboredo, among other SCP sailors. Our family in the Snipe class…
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…
Snipe 12115 “Simbad”, built by Lineburger in 1959 for the Worlds in Porto Alegre. Nassau, Bahamas, 1967. Nelson Piccolo e Carlos Henrique de Lorenzi Nassau, Bahamas, November 5-10, 1967 Nelson Piccolo…
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…
