Snipe Bulletin
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All about the Snipe Class and the Snipe Sailors. Exchange of views, opinions, comments and new proposals. The Snipe is alive and exciting. And the discussion is lively as well.
By Corrado Perini Snipe Fleets in Chioggia Chioggia, Venice Lagoon, is called "Little Venice", because of its historical center, similar to "La Serenissima", made of bridges and canals. The local…
Fleet 876, Romagna, Italy By Alberto Perdisa History of the fleet After convincing some friends in 2000 to buy Snipes and re-launching the boat in an area once important but…
[caption id="attachment_8195" align="alignnone" width=""]Darby Capellin grew up sailing Optis in St. Pete.[/caption]Sailing at this weekend’s Snipe State Championship in St. Petersburg, Florida was such as amazing learning experience. Competing along…
[caption id="attachment_8192" align="alignnone" width=""]Darby and Alan Capellin also sail together on other boats, like this J/95.[/caption]Editor's Note: Alan Capellin is a multi-regatta winning Snipe crew with a variety of skippers.
Fleet 495, San Diego, CA, USA By Don Bedford Started by Herbie Shear back in the early 1960s, Fleet 495 (then the Mission Bay Snipe Fleet) began with a few…
A short history (in Portuguese) of the Fleet 727 Campestre 1971 : O Ano da Classe Snipe em Sta Catarina "Um lago seria, por certo, apenas um lago…
The heart of the Snipe class is the local fleet. Fleet activity boosts regional, national and international activity. It is also a “family” where the sailors can spend their…
Fleet #24 was one of the early chartered Snipe fleets in the USA. It has been relocated from Santa Monica to Marina del Rey, a suburb of Santa Monica. They…
During the Senior World Championship a Sailors forum was held in a theatre at the Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro. These were ideas from the room for the Board…
Latest issue of the Snipe Bulletin now available for reading online…
By Luis Soubié A few months ago, on April 21st 2013, I had my first 25 years in the class. I still remember that day of 1988 like it was…
By Pepe Perez (article in Spanish) Alguien tuvo la magnífica idea de establecer un sistema de "repesca" para admitir en el Campeonato del Mundo a tripulaciones NO CLASIFICADAS en sus…
[caption id="attachment_7099" align="alignnone" width=""]1960s Snipe sailing in San Francisco Bay. Photo courtesy SCIRA[/caption]In my day job as managing editor of boats.com, I spend most of my time editing the work of…
Ivo Gattulli from Rome asked to post his own opinion about regattas overlapping. "I'm just a snipe-racer, and a Fleet Captain like hundreds, trying to do his own.. So I…