Interviews & Videos
2019 US Women’s Snipe Nationals
2019 US Women’s National Snipe Championships held at Branched Oak Lake Nebraska August 23-25, 2019.
by Mary Buckley
Articles, Advices & Education
How to sail a Snipe fast? Read the tuning tips from our experts. Spreaders, rake, mast butt position. Do you have doubts about how to rig a Snipe? Read the news about boats or equipments.
Training hours are always important. Here are some tricks on how to work well and on an effective boat handling.
Is your problem tactics and strategy? Don’t worry, you can find many answers by reading the articles of our experts.
All about the Snipe Class and the Snipe Sailors. Exchange of views, opinions, comments and new proposals. The Snipe is alive and exciting. And the discussion is lively as well.
SnipeToday Video Conference: Free Kinetics: yes or no? (Part 2)
Special guests: Augie Diaz, Pedro Pires de Lima, Kathleen Tocke, Antonio Bari, Victor Perez Campos, Luis Soubie and Ricardo Lobato…
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Snipe Bulletin
Read the latest Snipe Bulletin – out today https://issuu.com/jbiehl/docs/snipebulletinspring2020 SnipeBulletinSpring2020…
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SnipeToday Video Conference: Free Kinetics: yes or no? (Part 1)
Ricardo Lobato – SCIRA Past Commodore and Rules Expert – explains the rule 42 evolution and the Snipe Class Guidelines…
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Interview with the photographer: Matias Capizzano
2015 Snipe Worlds – Talamone. Italy© Matias Capizzano Behind the lens: Matias Capizzano, sailing photographer from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Matias is well known by the Snipe sailors, having followed…
1973 World Championship in Malaga
SnipeYesterday Malaga, October 12-20, 1973 1. Felix Gancedo & Rafael Parga, Spain 2. Per Brodsted & Steen Brodsted, Denmark 3. Erik Thorsell & Claes Nordwall, Sweden 4. Earl Elms…
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ST Video Conference: 2020 Snipe Open European Championship
Presentation of the 2020 Snipe Open European Championship. Special guests: Damir Vranic, Reino Suonsilta, Daniela Semec, Antonio Bari, Josipa Prosinecki, Marko Marinovic…
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How to Improve Fast – 7. The Automatic Pole
by Luis Soubie – SCIRA Commodore There are few things worse on a Snipe than rounding the leeward mark without the pole retracting correctly. If this happens,…
by Luis Soubié
Lineburger 12117
Lineburger #12117 Built in 1959 for the Snipe Worlds in Porto Alegre (Photo courtesy of Ivan Fernandes Costa)…
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14 Questions to … Maria Fiestas
Maria Fiestas, Snipe sailor from Marbella, Spain – 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? My first time on a sailboat… Hmmm I don’t remember very well, but…
Snipe Varalyay “Pesja” Y 15006
Lou Varalyay, in the chapter dedicated to him in the book “Snipe Tales”, published in 1996, and which we recently re-proposed (“Lou Varalyay reminisces”), told of…
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Real Club Nautico de La Coruna, 1951
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Lou Varalyay Reminisces
Ted Wells and his famous 1946 Varalyay Snipe #6025 “Good News III” which is in the Mystic Seaport Museum collection (Mystic Connecticut) (Originally published on “SnipeTales by a Great Group…
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Interview with the photographer: Guillermo Baixauli
Guillermo Baixauli, sailing photographer from Valencia – 1) When did you start as a photographer and what sparked that? I started in 2007 coinciding with the celebration of the…
Barbanera I
Trieste, 1957. Launching and christening ceremony Barbanera I Sail number: 11012 Builder: Aldo Brezich Launched; Spring 1957 in Trieste, Società Triestina della Vela Skipper: Giorgio Brezich (From Giorgio Brezich archives)…