The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
The history of our Class is also the story of the decals that have been chosen by the Commodores in charge and have been shown on the starboard side…
Snipe 11535 is finally fully restored! Originally named “Chase Me”, built in 1958 by SCIRA Commodore George Becker (1945) for his daughter Ruth, she went on to win the…
Source. Lineburger Wooden Snipe Torbel and Lars Grael and Lineburger Wooden Snipe #12296 in Porto, Portugal, 1983 Conquista do Mundial de Snipes de 1983 pelos irmãos…
Francisco Ferrer Cardona (90) is one of greatest representatives in Menorca, and a great example to follow. He coached many Snipe sailors when they sailed Optimist. He has been an…
From Gastão Hugh Pullen Pereira de Souza’s archives, an article written by Bill Crosby for “The Yachting Magazine”.
From Gastão Hugh Pullen Pereira de Souza archives Gastão Hugh Pullen Pereira de Souza, from Brazil, sailed the 1949 Snipe World Championship in Larchmont, NY, USA and now he sends…
Mahon, Menorca, Spain, 1956 (Source: I love Snipe Class Menorca)…
I-15782 “Tifeo” is sailing again in Monfalcone with Mauro Pelaschier and Luisa Spanghero…
From Harrison Gill III FB page National Geographic – June 1945 article on TVAs “Great Lakes of the South”. Tennessee teenagers rigging Snipes on Lake Chickamauga Seventy-Five years ago!…
Bon II – Giorgio Brezich & Franco Ostoich Riva del Garda, July 13-24, 1957 From Luisa Spanghero archives:…
A rare video of an international regatta, held in Monaco (Monte Carlo) in 1952. The regattas were held in front of the port, with the streets famous for the…
#13005, built in 1961 by Lippincott Boat Works, Riverton, NJ, USA. Interesting that this boat (#13005) was the actual 1961 World Champion Snipe, sailed by Axel and Eric Schmidt…
by John Rose Hooray, this boat has been “missing in action” for a long time! Glad to see it again – I raced against it back in the 1950s…
From Pedro Pires de Lima: “My grandfather Duarte Roboredo, my uncles Carlos Roboredo, Luís Roboredo and Tito Roboredo, among other SCP sailors. Our family in the Snipe class…
