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By Pietro Fantoni I do not want to explain in this article how the maneuvers should be done and how a crew has to move in a boat. There are already excellent videos and articles written by sailors better than me. I simply want to explain what aspects it is useful to focus on if you sail with a crew…
Here you can find a collection of pieces (articles, stories, interviews, reports, video) of the last 12 months. If you missed these stories the first time, we highly recommend reading…
From the land of Santa Claus By Kai Saarhelo – Photo courtesy of Jore Kinnunen Icebreakers 1981 from the World Northest Snipe Fleet 741 (Oulu Snipe Fleet). Photo will be…
[caption id="attachment_11363" align="alignnone" width=""]Drawing by Paolo Cardoni[/caption]The third year for SnipeToday is coming to an end, and we want to write a little about where we are today. We are…
Attached are the worlds quotas based upon the past 2 years boat registrations, per the Isaacs Deed of Gift. ...
Latest issue of the Snipe Bulletin – Winter 2015 – now available for reading online!…
From Poland Rafal Zakrzewski, East European Secretary - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? I started sailing when I was seven. It was a half century ago. At…
Built in wood, year of build estimated at 1972, by Terkelsen of Stone Hythe Snipe fleet…
By Gonzalo "Old Man" Diaz Here is a photo of me on my first snipe # 3686 in 1945 approx. The boat was built in Cuba in 1939 by an…
By Luis Soubie In the previous chapter, the first, we discussed the critical importance of THINKING all the time while racing. Only if we think will we have ideas, and…
[caption id="attachment_11296" align="alignnone" width=""]Team GBR got around us on the second upwind leg, on their way to another race win. Meanwhile from the Parthenon, the sailing gods watched over us.
Kai Saarhelo from Pori, Finland - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? I guess it was sometime in 1968. Trying an Optimist on a small lake. - 2)…
Un altro ritrattino ad acquarello Courtesy of Davide Besana www.davidebesana.com aquarelle …
Make your plans for the 2015 Jr & Sr Snipe Worlds in Talamone, ITA Video Paolo Cardoni – Circolo della Vela Talamone [iframe width=”300″ height=”250″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/XO7eiAjOBhE” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen ]…
Snipe Promotion Sailing lessons with Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz [iframe width=”300″ height=”250″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/FY46koNomYc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen ]…