The Snipe World Championship “Commodore Hub E. Isaacks Trophy” is not an open championship, in which everyone can participate, but it is a closed event, with numerical limitations by country. The Deed of Gift provides a set of rules with the purpose of guaranteeing a high quality level for the pinnacle event of the Snipe Class, while allowing each country…
The Board of Governors has accepted the bid from SCIRA Japan to host the 2021 Snipe World Championship. Enoshima is the venue, the same as the Olympic competition in…
Snipe Sr/Open Worlds – October 7-12 Ilhabela, Brazil Quotas for country entries for the 2019 Snipe Sr/Open Worlds have been set – 2019 World Quotas Here are…
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by Pietro Fantoni - SCIRA Vice Commodore Compliance with Class Rules is critical to ensure that a Class does not lose credibility. If class rules are not respected and they…
by Pietro Fantoni, SCIRA Vice Commodore (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano) In La Coruna we split, for the first time in the history of the Snipe World Championship, the boats…
(Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano) How did you prepare for the Worlds? For Worlds, Mac and I started talking about making a plan in order to be able to compete…
by Cesar Travado (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano) A new scoring system was used for the 2016 Europeans and the Worlds 2017. It consists, as most of you know, on…
Several years ago the Snipe Board of Governors voted to amend the entry system for the Hub Isaacs World Championship Deed of Gift. Let's do a quick history of how…
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…
By Pietro Fantoni Diagrams and calculations by Stefano Longhi - Photos by Matias Capizzano It is quite difficult to get a good start with a fleet of 40 Snipes fighting…
[caption id="attachment_14474" align="alignnone" width=""]A proud moment, leading race 3 of the Snipe Worlds. We eventually posted a fourth in that race[/caption]By Carol Cronin - From Where Books Meet…
Gustavo Carvalho, from Salvador de Bahia, 2015 Snipe World Champion with his skipper Mateus Tavares (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano) - 1) Your first time on a sailing boat? My…
By Carol Cronin Over the past several years, there has been a lot of discussion about how to provide good charter boats for international championships—and how to get them returned…