SnipeToday Video Conference: Free Kinetics: yes or no? (Part 1)
Ricardo Lobato – SCIRA Past Commodore and Rules Expert – explains the rule 42 evolution and the Snipe Class Guidelines…
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All about the Snipe Class and the Snipe Sailors. Exchange of views, opinions, comments and new proposals. The Snipe is alive and exciting. And the discussion is lively as well.
by Luis Soubie – SCIRA Commodore There are few things worse on a Snipe than rounding the leeward mark without the pole retracting correctly. If this happens,…
by George Szabo When the sailing season comes back, we’ll have a lot of regattas to make up, and only a short amount of time. You’ll want to be…
[caption id="attachment_4688" align="alignnone" width=""]US Nationals - San Francisco 2008 (Fried Elliot)[/caption]Racing sailboats is a wonderful sport. It’s always available for you when you are ready. I find myself…
by Antonio Bari – Rules Committee Chairman Over the past few months, several requests have been submitted to the Rules Committee to clarify or explain specific…
According to the Decision Making Process, Rules changes can be submitted (only by National Secretaries, the Rule Committe, the SCIRA Board or 5 Fleet Captains) up…
by Carol Cronin (Photo courtesy of Matias Capizzano / SCIRA) It wasn’t until the Snipe Women’s Nationals that I realized how much I relied on gates. Because. There. Weren’t.
After the 2015 and 2017 Snipe Worlds in Europe, the 2019 edition was in South America (Ilhabela, Brazil) and, of course, the equipment used by the sailors (boats, sails…
Matias Capizzano captures the moment just after our pole shockcord let go… by Carol Cronin The next time your pole shockcord lets go, here’s how to jury-rig a…