Winchester, MA, USA, July 11, 2021. Report by John and Myrna MacRae With Tropical Storm Edna paying Massachusetts a quick visit last Friday, conditions improved dramatically over the weekend for the 19 Snipes that convened at the Winchester Boat Club for the 65th Annual Snipe Winchester Invitational. The Upper Mystic Lake – which, despite its small size, is home…
by Carol Cronin (from her blog: Carol Newman Cronin, Author, Editor, Olympian) Two decades ago, Paul and I had to return a borrowed Snipe to Mystic…
by Alison Keenan Sailing this year looked very different from the typical summer filled with regatta and other events. We definitely did not take for granted any day we could…
Winchester, MA, USA, September 20, 2020. Final results after 8 races (1 discard): Jim Bowers & Julia Marsh, 12 Cam Fraser & Liz Glivinski, 16 Jocko MacRae & Myrna…
Winchester, MA, USA, August 8-9, 2020 by Art Rousmaniere One of the Snipe Class’s longest running regattas, the Winchester Invitational, was forced to not be held this year like so…
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY – THIS IS A JOKE US National Secretary Art Rousmaniere has decided to move the 2020 Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship (WHO) to Mystic Lake, which…
(Photo courtesy of Bill Swanton) Winchester, MA, USA, October 26, 2019 A sushi boat. A skeleton crew. Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and C-3P0. Popeye and Olive Oil. Pirates. Referees. What do they…
Winchester, Massachusetts, July 6-7, 2019 Just days after the fireworks of Independence Day, competitors at the annual Winchester Invitational were served up some exciting conditions of a different sort. Hosted…
The US held the second of two Snipe Clinics of the year, this time at the Winchester Boat Club over the June 29-30 weekend (the first was a part…
Winchester, October 20, 2018 by: Head Referee – Stephen Braverman The Mystic Lake Snipe Fleet hosted the 3rd annual Snipe Halloween Regatta. The Winchester Boat Club remained open for one…
Winchester, MA, USA, July, 7-8, 2018 by Liz Glavinski and Cam Fraser The newly renovated Winchester Boat Club was host for the first Snipe regatta on the Mystic Lake this…
Winchester, August 25, 2017. (There are lots of great regatta and party photos courtesy of SCIRA USA - visit vhetheringtonyoung) Report by Carol Cronin “Where is the…
Winchester, August 24, 2017 (Photo courtesy of SCIRA USA) 1. Jim Bowers & Julia Rabin, 18 2. Art Rousmaniere & Jennifer Rousmaniere, 29 3. Augie Diaz & Pam Kelly, 52…
[caption id="attachment_19278" align="alignnone" width=""]Snipe in the pool. Classic Nationals[/caption]Winchester, August 23, 2017. From Carol Cronin For those of you watching from afar and waiting for results, I can't even tell…
Winchester, August 22, 2017. 4 races today on Mystic Lake: we finished the Crosby qualifying series (the first one in several years) and then sailed the first race of the…