SnipeYesterday
Real Club Nautico de La Coruna, 1951
NOT N 457 B…
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.
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…
by SnipeToday
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)…
Attention Snipe Sailors! April Fool’s Stories
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 SnipeToday
Restart from the Fleet Activity
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…
Free Kinetics: Yes or No?
(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 Tribute to Herb Shear and Earl Elms
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 SnipeToday
Acceptable Snipe Social Distancing: Prepping your Snipe for the Sailing Season
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…
by George Szabo
14 Questions to … Katia Royer
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…
2019 Snipe World Championship – Photo Book
Photo Book by Matias Capizzano Link…
by SnipeToday
An Island in the Middle of the Race Course
The race course of Mahon is located in the long inlet of the Port of Mahon. Our friend Damian Borras from Menorca sends us some photos of the Isla…
by SnipeToday
Thank Your Teammate Day
Blocking waves, adjusting all those controls: Thanks Kim! (Thanks also to Matias Capizzano for this photo from the 2015 Snipe Worlds.) by Carol Cronin Today, Kim and I are supposed…
by Carol Cronin
Training for Who Knows When………?
[caption id="attachment_4688" align="alignnone" width=""]US Nationals - San Francisco 2008 (Fried Elliot)[/caption]Racing sailboats is a wonderful sport. It’s always available for you when you are ready. I find myself…
The Sailing Virus will prevail!
by Pietro Fantoni We are experiencing a strange, almost surreal period. We all have a great desire to race or simply go out on the boat to train, but…