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Junior Skippers and Snipes at the Oakville Yacht Squadron
Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 1950s…
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The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
Lake Balaton, Hungary, 1962
Eszes Béla & Fekete Gábor (in this picture) won the 1962 Hungarian Junior Nationals. Note the old IYRU mainsail country code (“M” for Magyarország, now “HUN”). From Béla Eszes archives…
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Concentracion de Barcos Clásicos
Vilagarcia de Arousa, Spain, September 18, 2022…
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Halifax Maritime Museum
Snipe #5652, in Halifax, Canada at the Maritime Museum Source: Regras.com.br (photo G. Nicolino)…
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Calliope #10010
Calliope was built in 1951. Now the boat is located at the Michigan Maritime Museum, in South Haven.
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Snipe World Champions, a Long List of Big Names
On Sunday 21st August, in Cascais, Portugal, at 13:00 (local time), the Class flag will be raised for the first race of the 2022 Snipe World Championship. Who are the…
Memorial Fernando Pedroza in Natal, Brazil
From Regras.com.br For the people who still don’t understand @snipebra’s role in national sailing. This is the Fernando Pedroza memorial at @iateclubedonatal On January 6, 1952,…
“Il sorpasso”
A tribute to Jean Luis Trintignan, who died on June 17, co-star of the movie “Il Sorpasso”, 1962 comedy directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman, Jean Luis Trintignan and…
1960 Bermuda Race Week
by Harry Levinson jr I posted this for Mother’s Day but then remembered that this I was the usual weekend for Bermuda Race Week. Two of the Levinson brothers and…
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Arrecife, 1960s
Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain…
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Menorca, 1949
Mahon, Menorca, Spain, 1949 Source: Snipe Menorca…
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Beaulieu 1979, South European Championship
Beaulieu, France, May 24-27, 1979 After the publication of Per Gothlin’s article “A Snipe and the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix”, we were able to find,…
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A Snipe and the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix
by Per Gothlin I got inspired by John D. Roses` story in a recent SnipeToday post where he told us about the Snipes appearing in Hitchcock´s…
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Launch of Restored Snipe “Ranger”
Watch the video It’s been 6 months since our restored Snipe sailing dinghy RANGER was launched at Crom, the historic HQ of LEYC. This wonderful video…
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Malaga, 1949
Malaga, Spain, 1949…
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