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A letter of thanks from the Commodore to the Japanese Snipe Fleet The Price of Progress: Should We Update Our Class Rules? Snipe Class Rules Enforcement SCIRA Courses Board’s Decisions on New Rule Proposals North Americans – Day 2 All Japan Nationals – Day 3 North Americans – Day 1 All Japan Nationals – Day 2 All Japan Nationals – Day 1 Rocky Mountain Championship Three Major Championships in Less Than a Month The Strength of the Snipe Class Annapolis Snipe Invite/US Junior Nationals

Official Communications from SCIRA

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2024 Worlds Quota

See the attached Worlds entry quota based on the deed of gift 2024 Worlds Entry quota Initial Registration Period21-May6 months priorInitial Registration Period closed6-August3 months priorAllocations open, posted13-August3 months less 1 weekUnfilled reallocation entries lost3-September8 weeks priorClose of entries15-October2 weeks prior Allocation timetable will be published by February on Worlds websiteEntries will not be accepted without Nat Sec signature/confirmationCountries…

by SCIRA Office 01/04/2024

Official Communications from SCIRA

Decision Regarding Eligibility for Jr Worlds Participants

The SCIRA Board are actively thinking about the future of the Snipe Class, recognizing the need to whether the current criteria (constitution, DoG, NOR, RRS, …) align with the complexities…

by SCIRA Office 11/20/2023

Official Communications from SCIRA

Rule Proposals for 2024 accepted

Proposals to change SCIRA Rules may be submitted up to March 1, 2024 for consideration by the Board of Governors. Please see the Rules Proposal Procedure posted on the website…

by SCIRA Office 10/26/2023

Articles, Advices & Education

Pan Am Games Set to Start

Sailing for the 2023 Pan Am Games are about to start with 8 countries represented for the Snipe. Held in Algarrobo at the Cofradia Nautica del Pacifico, the same site…

by SCIRA Office 10/26/2023

News

Amended Class Rules – Shroud Adjusters

World Sailing has approved an emergency change for the Snipe Class effective August 14, 2023 Read the change here…

by SCIRA Office 08/15/2023

Articles from the Experts Rules

Snipe Class Rules update

by Gus Wirth, Technical Committee Chairman The Snipe class rules for 2023 have been approved by World Sailing and become effective 1 July 2023. A large portion of the rules…

by SCIRA Office 06/30/2023

Articles from the Experts Rules

Updated Class Rules 2023 – July 1, 2023

World Sailing has approved submitted Class rule changes that go into effect July 1, 2023 View the updated Class Rules here View the summary of amended Class Rule Changes…

by SCIRA Office 06/22/2023

News

Updated Race Document Templates

The Rules sub-committee has updated the Notice of Race and Sailing Instruction templates and also provided a combined NOR/SI template. All these files have been uploaded to the Class Rules…

by SCIRA Office 06/14/2023

Official Communications from SCIRA

2024 Open World Championship

Buenos Aires, Argentina to host the 2024 Open Worlds from October 24-November 2, 2024 More information to come soon! Save the dates!…

by SCIRA Office 06/08/2023

News

Snipe Bulletin – Spring 2023

Read the latest news from SCIRA – June Snipe Bulletin out a bit early! Lots of information on upcoming regattas and those that have been held…

by SCIRA Office 05/24/2023

News

New members of Technical Committee

The SCIRA Board has appointed 2 new members to the SCIRA Technical Committee to fill vacancies. Andrea Piazza (ITA) and Jan Carlander (SWE) will join the rest of the TC…

by SCIRA Office 05/11/2023

News

Women’s Worlds

All women & girls are invited to the 2023 Women's Snipe World Championship in Valencia, Spain, October 3- 8.

by SCIRA Office 03/09/2023

News

2023 European Championship

Epic sailing on Lake Garda…

by SCIRA Office 02/23/2023

Official Communications from SCIRA

2023 Rules Proposals

March 1 is the deadline to submit any rules change proposals for the Board to consider for 2024. 5 new rules proposals have been published to the Snipe website…

by SCIRA Office 02/22/2023

Official Communications from SCIRA

SCIRA Treasurer’s Report

SCIRA End of Year Accounts 2022 The SCIRA Board would like to personally thank all of you who paid your membership dues last year. We would also like to thank…

by SCIRA Office 02/09/2023