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Zbigniew Rakocy, European Secretary, from Poland - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? I was 12-13 years old when my younger brother and I started to learn sailing in the Cadet class. Before that, as a kid, I was really into constructing model sailing boats. I think I still have some of them hidden somewhere in in the…
"Attention, Snipe Sailors!" Gonzalo "Old Man" Diaz, THE SNIPE SAILOR, from Havana to Miami, 68 years of sailing Snipes! - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? In 1943…
Enrico Michel, Snipe builder and Snipe sailor - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? On an old wooden optimist when I was 6 - 2) Your first time…
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Jerelyn Biehl, Snipe Sailor and SCIRA Executive Director - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? Pretty sure my parents had me sailing in their Lightning before I was…
Don Bedford, SCIRA Commodore and Snipe Sailor - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? I really don't remember my first time on a boat but i di have…
The Board of Governors has approved a new allocation method for the Snipe World Championship - Hub Isaacs Trophy, to encouarge the maximum 80 boat fleet. This will help local…
- 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? I think at six with my dad and my mom. The following year they gave me an Optimist. Since then I…
By Carol Cronin, SnipeToday co-editor Previous articles: Snipe Class and Class Promotion, Snipe Class and Class Promotion 2 .... We continue to receive reports and suggestions…
By Carol Cronin (Where Books meet Boats) A Rod Davis article in the latest Seahorse Magazine got me thinking: why is it that from the outside, mid-life…
Bojan Grego, sailmaker, Snipe sailor and Olympian (FD) from Croatia - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? At 3-4 years old. My father was also sailor - 2)…
Carol Cronin, SnipeToday co-editor, Snipe Sailor and Olympian (Yngling) - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? At 10 days old (frequently misquoted by reporters as "10 years old").
Kenji Abe, Snipe sailor from Japan, second at 2007 Worlds - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? My first time was on a Flying Junior, 25 years ago.
By Bruno Mello (SCIRA US) Snipe friends around the world I was very fortunate to drive a van and four snipes around the country to promote our class in 2012.
Xandi Paradeda, aka Careca, 2001 Snipe World Champion and Olympian (470) - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? My first time on a sailing boat was when I…