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Dinghy racing can be a remarkably complex sport. From trying to decide which rig setting to go with to figuring out whether or not you might get a lee-bow effect from the current, it can be pretty mindboggling. In addition, yes, at the highest levels of the sport, you need to nail each one of those decisions to win.
Where Kindness May Be Your Most Strategic Sailboat Racing Strategy…
When communication was limited, a game plan helped ensure a common understanding of what had to be done on the racecourse.
Special guests: Augie Diaz (from Miami) and Victor Perez Campos (from Palma de Mallorca)…
by Carol Cronin (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano / SCIRA) It wasn’t until the Snipe Women’s Nationals that I realized how much I relied on gates. Because. There. Weren’t.
Story by Carol Cronin (Photo courtesy Ted Morgan) At a recent Snipe regatta, Kim Couranz and I counted up the number of lines we each control. Her total? Sixteen…
By Luis Soubie (Photo courtesy of John Payne - 2014 WH&O Championship) It is very important to have good speed, but more important is to sail a good race. This…
By Pietro Fantoni Diagrams and calculations by Stefano Longhi - Photos by Matias Capizzano It is quite difficult to get a good start with a fleet of 40 Snipes fighting…
George Szabo (Quantum Sails San Diego) has won 21 championships, including five US Snipe Nationals and four North Americans. In 2015 he won the two final Star Sailors League Regattas…
by Arthur Blodgett While most major championships will be contested on open water, lake regattas mean just as much to the people contesting them and test sailors' skills in new…
Snipe sailor Gavin O’Hare is the author of the animated online guide “Contemporary Team Racing”. It is an excellent tool for visually displaying tough team race topics.
Article originally published in July 2007 on snipe.it Surely you have all experienced a starting line that was especially favored at one end. In some cases, the Race Committee has…
For those who are planning to sail in Talamone for the next Junior or Senior Worlds By Alessandro Testa Talamone is a small village located in the northern part of…
[caption id="attachment_4762" align="alignnone" width=""]Reading the wind can help you get to the mark before pileups like this one, caught by John Payne at the 2011 US Snipe Pan American Trials.[/caption] In…
Text in Italian Lee-Bow Effect…