The first day of the Aspen Viper 640 International Championship sponsored by EFG is in the books…but the pages are a bit soggy. As the sailors gathered for the opening competitors meeting, the first line of rain showers swept across Hamilton, Bermuda. Being run in conjunction with the Viper 640 North American Championship and hosted […]
Mary and Geoff Ewenson win Southern Bay Race Week SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK Hampton (VA) Yacht Club June 3-5 Hampton Yacht Club again ran a tremendous event with a dozen one-design and handicap class racing on the lower Chesapeake. After three days of racing and 11 races it was Mary and Geoff Ewenson aboard Terminally […]
Jeff Grange Wins 2016 SF Bay’s Delta Ditch Run Stockton Sailing Club June 6 Most of us race Vipers one-design around the buoys while others race their Viper PHRF. Some of our California Viper brethren decided to race their Vipers on a distance race: the Delta Ditch. As background, the 25th annual Delta Ditch Run […]
Chris Parker, Jeff Grange and Mike Kuhney top Viper fleet in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Skiff Festival Santa Barbara Yacht Club May 14-15 Host club’s Chris Parker with event chair Jeff Grange and Mike Kuhney winning three of five races followed in second by Viper Governor and Alamitos Bay YC member Tim Carter sailing with […]
Lee Shuckerow at top of Podium at Bayview One-Design Regatta Bayview One-Design Regatta Bayview Yacht Club June 3-5 The Bayview ODR is a major mid-west regatta with over 225 boats sailing on Detroit’s Lake St. Clair in 16 divisions. Within the 7-boat Viper fleet, it was Lee Shuckerow, Eric Vigrass, and Mike Weber sailing Jackpot […]
May 20-21, Fairhope Yacht Club, Fairhope, AL It was the first major Viper regatta since the Gulf Yachting Association selected the Viper as its new Capdevielle interclub boat (as of 2018)…and what a regatta it was. The details will follow, but the topline report is that John Dane, former Olympic Star sailor and relatively new […]
Hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club the Viper three day event was held in a wide range of testing weather conditions around Torbay, alongside the K6 Class Championships. Five boats competed for this first UK Championship, since the launch of the Rondar version in the UK during 2014. There has been growth of the […]
Reported by Governor Justin Scott So there we were, having dinner in a quaint Italian town, and a regatta broke out… Riva Del Garda: The Ora, Vino Rosso, The Falmouth Four, Ted the Marsupial and the first Viper European Championships Twenty three Vipers and K6s descended on the utterly charming town of Riva Del Garda […]
Viper 640s Miami Scorch A Blustery Event MIAMI (March 3): There are a lot of reasons to come to South Florida to race Vipers in March. The weather is usually great. The competition is excellent. But it’s not all about the racing around the buoys. There’s also the race to the restaurant, known as the […]
Easy to get sailing and up to speed, yet all the one design competition you can handle.
