Results/Reports
Five Races, Five Winners at the 2026 Northeast Lipton Challenge Cup
Just five points separated the top five clubs as Nepean Sailing Club emerged from a tightly fought regatta to take the 2026 Northeast Lipton Challenge Cup.
Solo for 28 Hours: Irish Viper Owner Tackles the SilverRudder Challenge
While most Viper racers are mostly racing one design, some owners are interested in using the Viper in handicap racing and other formats. Recently, the 1st Viper participated in what is becoming a quite famous solo regatta in Denmark, the SilverRudder Challenge. Ian “Paddy” Paterson raced Viper 224 (Previously Black Adder) for over 28 hours…
In March it was Back To Bacardi for the Vipers
After a spectacular winter series in Sarasota, 23 Vipers migrated east to race in Miami in the Bacardi Cup from March 7-9. Day 1 found the boats ashore in the morning waiting for the breeze to fill in, but once it did, the fleet was off and running. Three races were completed on Thursday with…
Jimmy Praley’s Team Robot Flamingo wins ’23-’24 Sarasota Winter Series
The February 10/11th third stop of the Sarasota Viper Winter Series saw intense competition and impressive performances from the participating teams. Crazyhorse Mongoose, sailed by the Fanberg family team of Zak, Connor, and Anders, emerged as the overall winners. Team Robot Flamingo secured second place and Glory Days rounded out the podium with a strong…
Beurteaux, Stubbs, and Wilder win WA State Champs
Twelve Vipers competed in perfect conditions on the weekend of 2 and 3rd December 2023 at South of Perth Yacht Club. A total of 8 races were completed in winds ranging from 5 to 15 knots. The wind was variable in both direction and strength making for big gains and losses on the course. Despite…
Allstate Sugarbowl 2023 Viper 640 World Championship – Final Report
Jackson Benvenutti Goes Wire-To-Wire to Win Allstate Sugar Bowl 2023 Viper World Championships
Rachel Beardsley wins Women’s NAs and Michael Burns wins Youth NAs
October 16, 2022 Viper 640 2022 Women’s and Youth North American Championships Gulfport (MS) Yacht Club has turned into Viper 640 Central this weekend through next. The weekend of October 15-16, Gulfport Yacht Club hosted the second Viper 640 Women’s NAs and the Class’s first Youth NAs. GYC PRO Steve Nolte got in a full…
Tyler Moore, Vir Menon and Javier Rotger win Annapolis NOOD
Reported by Peter Beardsley May 8-9 was a pretty nice weekend in Annapolis. Eleven Vipers on the line. The fleet opted to only sail Saturday-Sunday, which we all felt smart about after a gale blew through on Friday and the RC canceled Friday racing early in the morning. The high winds were a reminder to…
Geoff Fargo walks away with San Diego NOOD
The 2021 Helly Hensen San Diego NOOD was held March 19 – 21. The regatta boasted a fleet of eight Viper 640s, which was the largest gathering of Viper640’s on the West Coast since the World Championship during the summer of 2019, according to Tim Carter, the US West Coast Viper Class Representative. The event…
Great Lakes 2020 COVID Cup Regatta
October 3-4, 2020 2020 has been a tough year for everyone. Viperers, with travel limited and restrictions on social contacts outside the household, have missed what was supposed to be an event-packed season of one-design racing culminating in the North Americans on Long Island Sound. As of mid-September, there had been no one-design racing on…