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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,…
Lineburger #12117 Built in 1959 for the Snipe Worlds in Porto Alegre (Photo courtesy of Ivan Fernandes Costa)…
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…
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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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…
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…
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)…
Moruzzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy – Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA – April 1st, 2020 We hope you have enjoyed our April Fool’s stories. Pesce d’aprile! Poisson d’avril! Aprilvis! (i.e.
By Pietro Fantoni More or less all regattas have been canceled due to the Coronavirus. The exceptions are very few. In some countries, such as Italy and Spain, any…
(Please watch this video above – 470 Men Medal Race with Free kinetics in 8 knots – and then read this article) By Pietro Fantoni To Rule 42 or…
A rare photo of Herb Shear, 1971 (Originally published on “SnipeTales by a Great Group of Snipe Sailors”, edited and censored by Buzz Levinson, 1996) by Mike McLaughlin “From 1966…
by George Szabo When the sailing season comes back, we’ll have a lot of regattas to make up, and only a short amount of time. You’ll want to be…
Katia Royer, Snipe sailor from Antwerp, Belgium. – 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? My first time was on a yacht when I was very little. At…
