Exchange of Views & Reading
Snipe Worlds: Plotting the Course — Episode 4
From the Origins to Mahon…
1959 Worlds
The Crossing of the Legendary 12000 Denmark
From Lineburger Wooden Snipe website Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the delivery of the 20 boats built by Alberto Lineburger for the 1959 Snipe’s World Championship, we had…
Lineburger Wooden Snipes – 12000 Series
From Lineburger Wooden Snipe site Série 12.000, o nascimento. por Enio Lineburger e Ilka Benedet Lineburger Para Alberto Lineburger, a história dos…
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1959 Lineburger Boats
By Luis Soubie These are the 20 Snipes that in 1959 the Club Jangadeiros bought from the Lineburger boatyard for the 1959 Snipe World Championship that would…
by Luis Soubié
Eight Bells: Paul Elvstrøm
Paul Elvstrøm, 25.2.1928 - 7.12.2016, four time Olympic Gold Medalist: "You haven't won the race if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors." The Snipe…
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12000
Snipe #12000 1959 Snipe World Champion in Porto Alegre, Brazil – skipper Paul Elvstrom, Denmark. Today the owner is Mariano Arroyo, from Rosario, Argentina, and he is still racing…
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1959 World Championship
Porto Alegre, Brazil, October 16-25, 1959 Paul Elvstrom, Denmark Gonzalo Diaz, Sr., Cuba Masyuki Ishii, Japan Sailed on the Guaiba River, 16 nations Photos from the Fleet 426 archives…
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Snipe Worlds Porto Alegre 1959
Stamps from the Snipe Worlds in Porto Alegre Brazil, when Paul Elvstrom won in 1959, Gonzalo Diaz Sr. was second and Masyuki Ishii third.(From Francisco Perez, Canada)……
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