The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
Dunphy Boats built a lot of sailboats, most importantly Snipe class one-design racing and family sailboats, which were very popular and competitive in the late 1930s and 1940s until a few years after WW II. Many Snipe championships in the midwest were won with Dunphy Snipes, particularly in the years just before WW II. Snipe designer William…
1960 Wooden Gerber-built Snipe #12021 By John Rose I saw this boat at the 2009 Classic Snipe Rally/Halloween Regatta in Atlanta, and was thrilled by the beauty of the…
Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 27, 2018 (Photo courtesy of Douglas Moreira – Fisheye) … more photos and results … Final Results…
This is a photo of Harold Gilreath's fiberglass Lofland Snipe #9753 "Texan III", built in 1954 after SCIRA adopted specifications for fiberglass Snipes. This is the first "official" (measured) fiberglass…
Details of plywood snipe 21335 with original plywood deck and plywood hull. She was built in 1975 by Murai yacht in Kobe, Japan. Owner: Kazuki Masuda … photos ……
1967 wooden Snipe, restored three years ago. The boats is actively sailing in Lake Tominé, Colombia. She is a very fast boat and is adapted for the current regattas.
This Snipe was owner-built in 1935 in Wichta Falls Texas USA, where there was a Snipe Fleet (#34) at that time before WW II. It has been stored for…
By Luis Soubie These are the 20 Snipes that in 1959 the Club Jangadeiros bought from the Lineburger boatyard for the 1959 Snipe World Championship that would…
Ostende, Belgium, 1956 European Championship 1. Frank Penman, England 2. Mino Dellacasa, Italy 3. Bernard Mach, Switzerland…
Oakville, Ontario, Canada Oakville Yacht Squadron Save the OYS…
by Bill Crosby 1940 – New York (Courtesy of snipe.it)…
Sergio Costiera built “Refolo II” in a room of his apartment in Gorizia with the help of his mother and sister (who helped him to bend the planks). In…
From the archive of the Familia Sánchez-Egea / Hidalgo … photo gallery ……
From Giorgio Brezich archives Rapallo, 1954…
SnipeYesterday 1963 (From Giorgio Brezich archives)…