By Pietro Fantoni, SCIRA Secretary After my article “Snipe Class and Class Promotion”, I received reports, ideas and suggestions from some countries and fleets including France, USA (Mission Bay), Argentina, Belgium, Croatia, United Kingdom and Italy. As I said a good starting point for the Board, SCIRA countries, and fleets is to share ideas and experiences. Now I…
By Pietro Fantoni, SCIRA Secretary Recently the Board and the National Secretaries analyzed the statistics of the Class (members since the ‘90s, boats since the ‘70s) that Renee Bartell had…
By Don Bedford, SCIRA Commodore Yet, another year of Snipe sailing winds down and I do hope you had lots of time on the water and met some new sailors.
By Gweneth Crook, Secretary WH&O When the Board voted to increase the age of participation at the Masters there was an overwhelming response from you, the sailors. The discussion started…
[caption id="attachment_5785" align="alignnone" width=""]Photo by Maria Muina[/caption](Photo via "I love Snipe Class" FB page) Hi Pietro, The first, you have to pay me a prize, jajajajaja .......Only me, I have…
By Pietro Fantoni, SCIRA Secretary. At a meeting of European National Secretaries held recently in Cervia, there was discussion of a radical change to the Deed of Gift of the…
Past Commodore Enrique Motta comments the new Mainsail Batten Proposal. (About this topic: New Mainsail Batten Proposal by Steve Stewart, Full Top Batten by Giorgio Brezich,…
As many of you are aware, last year the Board of Governors passed a change to the rules to allow a “full batten” on the main and to lengthen the…
The Snipe Board of Governors has voted to amend the Deed of Gift for the Id Crook Memorial World Masters Championship. The minimum age has changed and an…
[caption id="attachment_4764" align="alignnone" width=""]Don Bedford[/caption]By Don Bedford, SCIRA Commodore. A happy new year for all Snipe sailors around the world. As I mentioned in my Snipe Bulletin article and…
[caption id="attachment_4643" align="alignnone" width=""]Villagarcia, Open de Espana[/caption]Dear all It was an extremely rewarding experience and I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to serve the classas the Commodore of…