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Viper 640 Snake Bytes – September 1, 2020
Time to get back to the gym! Read on… Snake Bytes September 1, 2020 IN TODAY’S SNAKE BYTES: Words from a Prez 2020 Mega Viper Regatta Week Viper Calendar Models Class Rules Update – IMPORTANT Regatta Reports Travis’ Troubled Thailand Travels (don’t you just love alliteration?) WORDS FROM A PREZ The summer of…
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Team “Big Rooster” Wins 2020 Annapolis NOOD
Sailing in Annapolis in August is always challenging. Plug in the passing of a tropical depression and the current pandemic, and the conditions are properly difficult. The one out-of-town team that came for the Annapolis NOOD was Tyler and Jane Moore’s “Big Rooster” with Hampton native turned Annapolitan Austin Powers and his girlfriend Kayla Harper.…
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Marblehead Vipers keeping it fresh…
With COVID19 putting a hurt on the normal sailing season, the Marblehead Viper Fleet has been starting to return to a sense of normalcy. Since mid-June, the 6 (out of 10) local boats who felt safe to do so, have been out sailing with the Marblehead Racing Association. The fleet has had some great days…
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Southern Yacht Club Wins 2020 GYA Junior Lipton Challenge
Gulfport Yacht Club, August 1-2, 2020 This year’s Junior Lipton Challenge was the 75th running of this historic regatta, one of the crown jewels of the Gulf Yachting Association’s Capdevielle interclub championship series. Hosted by the Gulfport (MS) Yacht Club with their Sailing Director and Viper sailor Sam Vasquez as Event Chair, the regatta reached…
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Matt Kaplan and Harry Koeppel win Viper 640 2020 Atlantic Coast Championship – David Owen wins Larchmont Race Week
Sailed over the first weekend of Larchmont Race Week, July 11-12, nine Viper crews contended with face masks, social distancing, and light, fickle Long Island Sound winds. In the end, however, it was the host Club’s Matt Kaplan and Harry Koeppel sitting atop the leader board and taking the win with a scoreline of 3-1-2-2.…
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Announcing 2021 and 2022 World and North American Championships
The LiveTiles North American Championship, scheduled for September 30 ,2020 at Noroton Yacht Club in Darien, CT, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We knew that we could not expect teams from all over North America to make advance plans due to Covid-19 to travel to Noroton in September,” explained Steve Chapman, North…
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No such thing as a heavy weather gybe drop…
Or so believes Peter Beardsley. But you know, having been there and having tried to do that, he’s right. Click HERE and read his whole story in the Viper Forum. Thanks, Peter. Peter wrote: Have been meaning to write this since after the February Sarasota event, but it seems like we need some content and…
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Viper 640 Snake Bytes – Hunkering Down – April 7, 2020
Hunkered down and waiting to go back to sea again! Snake BytesApril 7, 2020 IN TODAY’S SNAKE BYTES: A Reality Check Words from a Prez Two online Viper meet-ups this week A note from Rondar’s Paul Young A list of Diversionary Tactics Reality Check As we all hunker down, self-quarantine, and practice social distancing, one…
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Vipers returning to Miami next week as part of Bacardi Cup Invitational
UNIQUE BLEND OF RACING AND SOCIALS WELCOMES INTERNATIONAL FLEET TO BACARDI CUP AND BACARDI INVITATIONAL REGATTA IN MIAMI, USA More than 500 sailors to race on Biscayne Bay from March 1-7, 2020 For Immediate Release (MIAMI, FL.) United by an equal passion, more than 500 sailors from around the world will race in Biscayne Bay,…
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Ill wins Sarasota Viper finale, Benvenutti holds on for overall win
Sarasota Winter Series Wraps Up As reported by Steve Chapman This past weekend was the final regatta of three weekends of the Sarasota Winter Series. This last event saw 14 Vipers sailing in great weather. The arrival of a cold front Saturday morning couldn’t keep the heat out of the sailing. With racing starting in…