Latest Viper 640 Class News
Buccaneer Yacht Club first to podium with all-women Viper 640 team
Over the July 13-14, 2018, weekend, Mobile (AL) Yacht Club ran its annual Summer Regatta including both Capdevielle and Open Viper 640 racing. In the Capdevielle series, John Dane (Pass Christian Yacht Club) took the event by one point over Max Albert from Pontchartrain Yacht Club. A single point back in third was Gulfport […]
Brad Boston, Lee Shuckerow, and Nick Lounsbury named 2018 Viper 640 North American Champions
After four days of sailing in big winds and sixteen races, the team aboard JACKPOT won the 2018 Viper North American Championship. This is Brad Boston’s (Port Edward, ON) sixth title, having won many with his boat partner Lee Shuckerow (Detroit, MI); this is their crew Nick Lounsbury’s first North American title. Boston’s team took […]
Brad Boston sets his sights on sixth Viper 640 North American Championship
The 36-boat fleet of Viper 640s, sailing out of Kingston (ON) Yacht Club and CORK/Sail Kingston in the waters where Lake Ontario meets the St. Lawrence, had a looooooooong day on the water for Day 3 of the 2018 Viper 640 North American Championship. The wind returned to the south and built from the low […]
Boston dominates Viper 640 NAs Day 2 as leaderboard shuffles
It was “breeze-up at the Viper 640 North American Championship being hosted by the Kingston (ON) Yacht Club and being sailed out of CORK/Sail Kingston. Day 1 saw moderate winds from the south but Friday’s northerly came with a cold front dropping temperatures to the low 70s and increasing wind up to the mid-20s in […]
Jay Rhame, Peter and Rachel Beardsley Lead Viper 640 North American Championship After Day 1
July 5, 2018 The 2018 Viper 640 North American Championship is being sailed in Kingston, ON hosted by the Kingston Yacht Club and CORK/Sail Kingston. IMG_7022[1]After days of unusually high temperatures and lack of wind, when the 36 crews arrived at their boats this morning there was a brisk 10-12 knot southerly blowing giving promise […]
Van Sheppard named 2018 Viper 640 Canadian Champion
Great Lakes sailors meet in drift-fest for Canadian Championship The Nepean One-Design regatta has been a fixture on the Great Lakes circuit for five years now. It’s always a great regatta from a social perspective and often a notoriously light, variable wind event. The 2018 edition was no exception, with 10 Great Lakes Vipers meeting […]
Jeff Grange crushes it at the Santa Barbara Skiff Festival
Held at the Santa Barbara (CA) Yacht Club May 19-20, the annual Skiff Festival brings together diverse fleets of high performance boats including Viper 640s, 5o5s, and 29ers. After seven races it was local sailor Jeff Grange with Scott Deardorff and George Witter on board who showed “how it is done!” with a score of eight points. Grange […]
GREAT SCOTT! Wins 2018 Viper 640 Atlantic Coast Championship
Sailing out of Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis, MD, over the May 19-20 weekend, Peter and Rachel Beardsley (Brooklyn, NY) and Simon Karstoft Jensen won the 2018 Viper 640 Atlantic Coast Championship…Beardsley’s second ACC win. The Championship’s two days’ conditions seemed as though they were from two totally different weather worlds. Saturday found everyone dress […]
Geoff Ewenson wins Sperry Charleston Race Week 2018
CRW and Sailing Inside CRW Viper Champ Geoff Ewenson tell the tale of this year’s regatta This was my first CRW sailing a Viper and sailing for the fun of it. Typically I am stuck sailing some big boat outside and kicking myself seeing how much fun the fleets are having racing inside the harbor. […]
