The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
[caption id="attachment_8923" align="alignnone" width=""][/caption]By Giorgio Brezich (excerpted and translated from the book "La Vita dello Snipe in Italia" – Sergio Michel – 2004 Alberto Perdisa Editore) My younger friends are astonished when I tell them how transportion was at the time of my first trips. In those days the cars were very few and it was very rare to find…
Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz drinking La Bomba in Havana in the early ‘50’s. Note a young Carlos Bosch cheering him on…
Lake Mohawk, USA Snipe fleet in the 1930s. #4 – Charlie Gabor-1938 Snipe World Champion; #2602 Margaret Hall. Photo provided by Bill Ridge (son of Margaret Hall).
J. Brown (original builder of Snipe #1) sold Adelaide to Charles A. Breath Jr. (of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) in 1933 By Chuck Breath from Pass Christian, Mississippi.My son, Charlie…
By Bill Ridge It would be nice to let Ms. Becker know that the boat has been loved for many years. The current owners are the Ridges – Marge…
From Perini family archives Chioggia, Italy ... photo gallery ...
Bahia Blanca – Argentina Club Nautico Bahia Blanca…
From Charley Austin #73… getting a restoration…
By John Rose Snipe #9 (renumbered, built in 1941 or 1948 or 1949) is in the Denver area (Englewood CO), it was owned originally by Dr. Hub Isaacks of Fort…
by Gonzalo "Old Man" Diaz According to the report in the May 1996 Snipe Bulletin: There was no races the first two days as winds were 25 to 40 knots. …
Green Lake, Winsconsin, August 16-22, 1975 This was a US Nationals with 129 Snipes by Lee Griffith Three weeks before this year's Green Lake Nationals I was moving some stacks…
From the book "Master of the Sky and Sea – The Story of Ted Wells" by James Rix A few regattas in the early '40s had participants from…
The 1953 Snipe Worlds Championship (Monaco) is described in Ted Wells "Wells' Wanderings" column in the October 1953 Snipe Bulletin, and there is also an article with boat equipment and…
Dunphy Boats built a lot of sailboats, most importantly Snipe class one-design racing and family sailboats, which were very popular and competitive in the late 1930s and 1940s until…
1960 Wooden Gerber-built Snipe #12021 By John Rose I saw this boat at the 2009 Classic Snipe Rally/Halloween Regatta in Atlanta, and was thrilled by the beauty of the…