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Rule Change Proposal: 19-05 MDS

Rule Change Proposal: 19-04 Centerboard Retaining System

Rule Change Proposal: 19-03 Adhesive Tape

Rule Change Proposal: 19-01 Class Rules, Corrector Weights
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Rule Change Proposal: 19-02 Junior Age

14 Questions to … Paola Prada
Paola Prada, new Brazilian National Secretary, Vice Commodore of the Yacht Club Paulista and Snipe sailor. – 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? December 1978, I participated…

Snipe Ranking – SSL Template for reporting
Snipe National Secretaries, Fleet Captains and regatta organizers; Attached is the template to use when submitting regatta results to be considered for the SSL ranking. As you…

Grignano, Early 1960s
From Giorgio Brezich archives The photo was certainly taken in Grignano (Gulf of Trieste) in the early 1960s. The motor boat is the “Vela” of…

SSL Ranking – New Coefficients
Three weeks ago the SSL Ranking was extended to the Snipe Class. We have received good feedback from many Snipe Sailors. We…

The Race Organization in the Old Days
[caption id="attachment_8942" align="alignnone" width=""]Miami, platform for the Race Committee with racing signals[/caption]By Giorgio Brezich The Racing Rules of Sailing have remained more or less the same. Today things are specified…

Semana Internacional del Yachting – Drone Video
Semana Internacionale del Yachting – Mar del Plata – Argentina…

How We Traveled in the Old Days
[caption id="attachment_8923" align="alignnone" width=""][/caption]By Giorgio Brezich (excerpted and translated from the book "La Vita dello Snipe in Italia" – Sergio Michel – 2004 Alberto Perdisa Editore) My younger friends are…

Winter Series Mahon – Video
Mahon, Menorca, Spain, February 2, 2019. Windward mark rounding.

Havana, early ’50s
Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz drinking La Bomba in Havana in the early ‘50’s. Note a young Carlos Bosch cheering him on…