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 the joy following the crossing of the Atlantic by container of the legendary DENMARK #12000 (owner: Mariano Arroyo). Read more…
From Lineburger Wooden Snipe site Série 12.000, o nascimento. por Enio Lineburger e Ilka Benedet Lineburger Para Alberto Lineburger, a história dos…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)……