“Pamperito” #7165
Photos of Snipe “Pamperito” #7165 built for Argentine World Champions– the Vilar Castex brothers.
The History of the Snipe Class with its boats and its protagonists.
From Giorgio Brezich archives The photo was certainly taken in Grignano (Gulf of Trieste) in the early 1960s. The motor boat is the “Vela” of…
[caption id="attachment_8942" align="alignnone" width=""]Miami, platform for the Race Committee with racing signals[/caption]By Giorgio Brezich The Racing Rules of Sailing have remained more or less the same. Today things are specified…
[caption id="attachment_8923" align="alignnone" width=""][/caption]By Giorgio Brezich (excerpted and translated from the book "La Vita dello Snipe in Italia" – Sergio Michel – 2004 Alberto Perdisa Editore) My younger friends are…
Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz drinking La Bomba in Havana in the early ‘50’s. Note a young Carlos Bosch cheering him on…
Lake Mohawk, USA Snipe fleet in the 1930s. #4 – Charlie Gabor-1938 Snipe World Champion; #2602 Margaret Hall. Photo provided by Bill Ridge (son of Margaret Hall).
J. Brown (original builder of Snipe #1) sold Adelaide to Charles A. Breath Jr. (of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) in 1933 By Chuck Breath from Pass Christian, Mississippi.My son, Charlie…
By Bill Ridge It would be nice to let Ms. Becker know that the boat has been loved for many years. The current owners are the Ridges – Marge…
From Perini family archives Chioggia, Italy ... photo gallery ...
Bahia Blanca – Argentina Club Nautico Bahia Blanca…
From Charley Austin #73… getting a restoration…
By John Rose Snipe #9 (renumbered, built in 1941 or 1948 or 1949) is in the Denver area (Englewood CO), it was owned originally by Dr. Hub Isaacks of Fort…
by Gonzalo "Old Man" Diaz According to the report in the May 1996 Snipe Bulletin: There was no races the first two days as winds were 25 to 40 knots. …
Green Lake, Winsconsin, August 16-22, 1975 This was a US Nationals with 129 Snipes by Lee Griffith Three weeks before this year's Green Lake Nationals I was moving some stacks…
From the book "Master of the Sky and Sea – The Story of Ted Wells" by James Rix A few regattas in the early '40s had participants from…