The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
It is wooden Classic Snipe #12375, built in 1960 by famous USA boat builder Carl Eichenlaub of San Diego, California USA. The original owner was Herb Shear, who later built many Chubasco Snipes, both wooden and fiberglass. This Snipe is now owned by Bernhard Rost of Sweden. It has been modernized and updated with current hardware and rigging.
By John D. Rose I thought you might be interested in seeing the buoyancy bag installation system (forward, side and aft bags) that I am using on my 1947 wooden…
The boat is a 1951 Mills. My dad bought it new from Clark Mills in Clearwater and had its MDS filed w/ SCIRA in February of 1951. He sailed it…
The interest generated by the classic 1963 Snipe “Veloce” I-14858 at the Yacht Club Sanremo and the curiosity of seeing a 50-year-old boat on the starting line perfectly in shape…
Giorgio Brezich ci racconta chi era Danilo D'Isiot, grande regatante e famoso costruttore. Chi conosce un po' di storia della nostra Classe sa chi è D'Isiot. Tanto…