Snipe Tops the List of Boats I Love

[caption id="attachment_7099" align="alignnone" width=""]1960s Snipe sailing in San Francisco Bay. Photo courtesy SCIRA[/caption]In my day job as managing editor of boats.com, I spend most of my time editing the work of others, making plans for future stories and the page designs that will make them easy to find, and figuring out how to fit so much great content into each week's publishing schedule. And then every so often, I find the time to write a blog post. So when a vacancy came up for our regular "Boats We Love" column, I decided to write about the Snipe.

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1960s Snipe sailing in San Francisco Bay. Photo courtesy SCIRA

In my day job as managing editor of boats.com, I spend most of my time editing the work of others, making plans for future stories and the page designs that will make them easy to find, and figuring out how to fit so much great content into each week’s publishing schedule.

And then every so often, I find the time to write a blog post.

So when a vacancy came up for our regular “Boats We Love” column, I decided to write about the Snipe.

There are, as far as I know, no Snipes for sale on any of the boats.com sites around the world—though maybe that will change, now that I’m sharing my story with other devotees. And my other posts on this topic were all about boats without sails (a towboat, a rowboat, and a Billy Joel Powerboat.). But fortunately the infinite space of web publishing permits the occasional indulgent personal whim, even when that whim doesn’t, strictly speaking, prop up the bottom line.

So even though you, dear Reader, already know from your own experience most of what I say in this post… about the joys of sailing Snipes, the family ties, the history… please read Boats We Love: The Snipe Sailboat and comment if you feel so moved. And maybe, just maybe, I can knit together even more closely my work and my play.

 

 

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