The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
by Gweneth Crook Oakville Yacht Squadron, on Lake Ontario, was founded in 1946 and started with a fleet of Snipes. In 1959 they acquired land on the other side of the 16 Mile Creek and built a new club house that is where the current club sits. The old club house went to an organization called Trafalgar Oakville Water-Air Rescue…
Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 1950s…
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…
Vilagarcia de Arousa, Spain, September 18, 2022…
Snipe #5652, in Halifax, Canada at the Maritime Museum Source: Regras.com.br (photo G. Nicolino)…
Calliope was built in 1951. Now the boat is located at the Michigan Maritime Museum, in South Haven.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain…
Mahon, Menorca, Spain, 1949 Source: Snipe Menorca…
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,…
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…
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…