Moscenicka Draga, Croatia, June 27, 2021. Final results after 4 races (1 discard) ITA Pietro Fantoni & Marinella Gorgatto, 4 CRO Bojan Grego & Vlado Grego, 5 CRO Milko Volaric & Dean Pavlak, 9 ITA Andrea Piazza & Marta Pendesini, 10 CRO Nikola Deskovic & Barsic, 11 CRO Damir Vranic & Linic, 16 CRO Andrija Colak & Zambelli, 23…
South Europe Summer Circuit 2021 Torbole, Italy, May 21-23, 2021 Chioggia, Italy, June 19-20, 2021 Final results: Pietro Fantoni & Arianna Buzzetti / Marinella Gorgatto, 3 Dario Bruni &…
(Photo courtesy of Andrea Carloni) Chioggia, Italy, June 20, 2021. Final results after 4 races (1 discard): Pietro Fantoni & Marinella Gorgatto, 4 Maurizio Planine & Michela Furlan, 9…
Chioggia, Italy, June 19, 2021. Results after 2 races: Pietro Fantoni & Marinella Gorgatto, 2 Dario Bruni & Carlo Collotta, 7 Romeo Piperno & Alexandre Tinoco, 9 Gioele Toffolo…
(Photo courtesy of Davide Zampieri) Torbole, Italy, May 23, 2021. No races today due to thunderstorm and very unstable winds. First Leg Summer Circuit (the Second Leg will be…
(Photo courtesy of Davide Zampieri) Torbole, Italy, May 22, 2021 Torbole Snipe Regatta (First leg Summer Circuit) – Day 2. Results after 3 races: Dario Bruni & Emanuele Zampieri,…
SCIRA is announcing that the 2021 Hall of Fame nominations are open. 5 people will be inducted for 2021 and anyone nominated in 2019 & 2020 will also be…
Molveno, Italy, July 25, 2020. Results after 1 race: Pietro Fantoni & Alberto de Paoli Gabriele Bernardis & Filippo Casagranda Romeo Piperno & Alexandre Tinoco Alberto Schiaffino & Andrea…
Just a bunch of Snipe sailors from around the world having some fun during a pandemic. The Snipetones: Harri Palm (Canada), Arthur Blodgett (USA), Reino Suonsilta (Finland), Kim Couranz…
A rose from my garden, a rose for the Class by Pietro Fantoni My latest article provoked many comments. I must say that I focused on a formal and procedural…
Joseph Mallord William Turner – Storm at Venice by Pietro Fantoni – SCIRA member Last Friday, after a Thursday night meeting, SCIRA Board of Directors has made the…
By Pietro Fantoni More or less all regattas have been canceled due to the Coronavirus. The exceptions are very few. In some countries, such as Italy and Spain, any…
(Please watch this video above – 470 Men Medal Race with Free kinetics in 8 knots – and then read this article) By Pietro Fantoni To Rule 42 or…
by Pietro Fantoni We are experiencing a strange, almost surreal period. We all have a great desire to race or simply go out on the boat to train, but…
When I think of the (little) time we spend racing, compared to the (much) time spent traveling, loading boats, rigging boats, waiting for the wind or waiting until the wind…