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SCIRA Announces 2024 Hall of Fame Inductees Message from the Commodore 2025 – changes to SCIRA Rules Welcome 2025! Chilean Nationals Chile awarded World Masters 2025 2025 Women’s Worlds granted to Japan XLV Trofeo Armada Española – XII Memorial Marcial Sanchez-Barcaiztegui – XIX Trofeo Azor Ambiental – Memorial Paco Perez Taça Paulo Santos Rio Women’s Cup 2025 & 2026 Championship Events Nifty Fiftieth Mystic Lake Open Snipe.org/SnipeToday – going forward Thank you to SnipeToday Editors Snipes are back in Los Angeles! European Junior Championship – a bust SCIRA Board of Governors Report 2025 DonQ Miami Bahamas Winter Championship 2025 Bacardi Invitational Rules Proposals 25-10 Women’s Regattas Wind Limit Rules Proposals 25-09 wind reading Rules Proposals 25-08 black flag Rules Proposals 25-07 serial numbers on equipment

SCIRA Announces 2024 Hall of Fame Inductees Message from the Commodore 2025 – changes to SCIRA Rules Welcome 2025! Chilean Nationals Chile awarded World Masters 2025 2025 Women’s Worlds granted to Japan XLV Trofeo Armada Española – XII Memorial Marcial Sanchez-Barcaiztegui – XIX Trofeo Azor Ambiental – Memorial Paco Perez Taça Paulo Santos Rio Women’s Cup 2025 & 2026 Championship Events Nifty Fiftieth Mystic Lake Open Snipe.org/SnipeToday – going forward Thank you to SnipeToday Editors Snipes are back in Los Angeles! European Junior Championship – a bust SCIRA Board of Governors Report 2025 DonQ Miami Bahamas Winter Championship 2025 Bacardi Invitational Rules Proposals 25-10 Women’s Regattas Wind Limit Rules Proposals 25-09 wind reading Rules Proposals 25-08 black flag Rules Proposals 25-07 serial numbers on equipment

April Fools stories

2014 Western Hemipshere & Orient Championship Relocated to Big Diomede Island Image

2014 Western Hemipshere & Orient Championship Relocated to Big Diomede Island

[caption id="attachment_9138" align="alignnone" width=""]Putin Bridge, planned for 23 June 2014[/caption]APRIL FOOLS' DAY - THIS IS A JOKE In another display of international tact and diplomacy, Russian President Vladamir Putin has announced that the 2014 Western Hemisphere & Orient Championships (WHO) will be held on Big Diomede Island, the easternmost point in Russia.

by Carol Cronin 04/01/2014

SCIRA announces a partnership with the United States’ Navy Image

SCIRA announces a partnership with the United States’ Navy

APRIL FOOLS' DAY - THIS IS A JOKE Retired U.S. Naval officer and veteran Snipe sailor, Doug Hart, has brokered the creation of a revolutionary partnership for SCIRA with the…

by Peter Commette 04/01/2014

Party Foil: A Foiling Pontoon Boat Image

Party Foil: A Foiling Pontoon Boat

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE It isn’t often that the pontoon boat market borrows from the sailing industry, but (whether they admit it or not), that’s…

by Carol Cronin 04/01/2014

Master Worlds Sponsor Image

Master Worlds Sponsor

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Snipe Masters Worlds announces new sponsor, name change and slogan: The Snipe Viagra Cup. “We do it up to 18 knots…

by Peter Commette 04/01/2014

New Persson Snipe Image

New Persson Snipe

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Jan Persson un-retires from boat building and announces a break through new Persson Left Handed Snipe, with everything installed 180 degrees…

by Peter Commette 04/01/2014

Rodriguez penalized by SCIRA Image

Rodriguez penalized by SCIRA

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE Ernesto Rodriguez penalized by SCIRA for his boat being too fast. When asked to comment, Ernesto said, “I deeeedn’t do anythiiiiing wrong,…

by Peter Commette 04/01/2014

Esclarecimento Image

Esclarecimento

Caros marinheiros da classe Snipe, não se preocupe: os artigos do passado eram uma piada. April Fools significa piada de abril. O primeiro de abril é o dia das…

by SnipeToday 04/02/2013

Attention Snipe Sailors! April Fools Stories Image

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Attention Snipe Sailors! April Fools Stories

Moruzzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy - Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA - April 1st, 2013 We hope you have enjoyed our April Fools stories. Pesce d'aprile! Poisson d'avril! Aprilvis! (i.e. April's…

by SnipeToday 04/01/2013

Interview with a Sailmaker: Laifos Sails Image

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Interview with a Sailmaker: Laifos Sails

APRIL FOOLS' DAY - THIS IS A JOKE You have probably never heard of this sailmaker. It is not a well known loft, but one for true connoisseurs of Snipe…

by Pietro Fantoni 04/01/2013

SCIRA Rules Hiking Sticks Illegal, Sets Maximum Length for Jib Sheets Image

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SCIRA Rules Hiking Sticks Illegal, Sets Maximum Length for Jib Sheets

APRIL FOOLS' DAY - THIS IS A JOKE In a surprise addition to the International Snipe Class Rules, the Board has decided to make hiking sticks illegal. It has also…

by Carol Cronin 04/01/2013

2013 Junior and Senior Snipe World Championship in Dubai Image

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2013 Junior and Senior Snipe World Championship in Dubai

APRIL FOOLS' DAY - THIS IS A JOKE The next Junior and Senior Snipe World Championship will be sailed in Dubai. The decision to move from Brazil to Dubai was…

by SnipeToday 04/01/2013

Carbon Fiber Mast, Boom and Pole Image

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Carbon Fiber Mast, Boom and Pole

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE The Rules Committee and Board of Governors of SCIRA approved the amendment of Construction Rules 27 and 34. To Rule 27…

by SnipeToday 04/01/2013

New Snipe Builder in China Image

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New Snipe Builder in China

APRIL FOOLS' DAY - THIS IS A JOKE Dragon Marine, already Optimist builder, will start building Snipes Despite the economic crisis, yachting and sailing is quickly growing in China. The…

by SnipeToday 04/01/2013

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