Latest Viper 640 Class News


Rod Beauteaux Wins Western Australian State Title and a hug from Santa

Western Australian State Championship We have been having some good racing leading up to Christmas. The Musto Regatta off Fremantle provided a weekend of good breezes and the States in early December promised more of the same. The State titles were held at SoPYC. The forecast was for light medium winds on Saturday morning and […]

Announcing the Real Club Nautico De Palma Viper 640 Winter and Spring Series

The International Viper 640 Class Association and Rondar Raceboats are delighted to announce a new European series of Viper 640 races in the spring and early summer of 2019, in the beautiful Bay of Palma, Majorca, hosted by the prestigious Real Club Nautico De Palma. RCNP is situated on the waterfront in Palma, just a […]

Chris Stocke, Patrick Wilson, and John Wallace atop SSS Winter Series #1

A Festive, fun time to start the 2018-2019 Sarasota Viper Winter Series Link to great recap video by Brian Johansen This past weekend marked the beginning of the holiday season in Sarasota:  The Viper Fleet has arrived!  27 Vipers made it to Sarasota for the first of three Winter Series weekends, getting in 4 official […]

SSS #1 Video Highlights – Northern Honey Badger Productions does it again!

  Thanks to Brian Johansen…again!

Mike Pentecost pulls off a tight weekend on Nice ASP to win the 2018 ABYC Turkey Day Regatta

November 17-18, 2018 Reported by Nick Kofski Alamitos Bay Yacht Club In Long Beach, CA, hosted their annual Turkey Day Regatta and was well attended with 12 Vipers showing up for great weekend of racing.  Saturday had light to moderate winds with temps in the low 70s. The Ocean Course committee pulled off three races and, […]

Viper Fun at the 2018 Hampton Fall Fling

Maximizing the northern sailing season before the migration south to Sarasota for the winter, the Viper fleet found its way to Hampton YC this past weekend to mix it up in the Hampton Fall Fling. In champagne to windy conditions over three days, the 9 boat fleet, which consisted of sailors of all ages and […]

Veni Vidi Vici — The Canadians came. They saw. They conquered! 2018 New England Champs

The 2018 Viper New England Championship was conceived by Peter Beardsley as an informal local regatta to act as a rendezvous regatta that rotates around the New England Viper fleets each year. There is no perpetual trophy, the emphasis is on some great sailing and good friends from the North East Viper fleets getting together. […]

Brad Boston wins Viper 640 New England Championship

October 14, 2018 Sailing eight races over two days, 24 Viper 640s competed for the 2018 New England Championship at Noroton Yacht Club on Long Island Sound in Darien, CT. Both days started off with the sailors having to bundle up as unseasonably cool temperatures were joined by variable winds for which the Sound is […]

2018 Vermont Voyage Validates Viper Verve

Reported by Cole Constantineau- who loves alliterative headlines and personal names Once again, the Lake Champlain Yacht Club, in Shelburne, VT, welcomed the Viper 640 fleet for another fun weekend of racing and comraderie. Twenty Viper teams duked it out on the water over seven races in quite variable conditions; the sailors also caught up […]

New Technical Committee Announcement On Stern Bridle Test

Many Viper owners have re-rigged their main sheets by moving the bridle from amidships to the stern, immediately in front of the split tails of the mainsheet—using the same deck pad eyes. Over half of the boats at the 2018 NAs used this aft bridle/aft split tail set up. While this makes trimming the mainsheet […]