Latest Viper 640 Class News
Jeff Grange Viper 640 Pacific Coast Champ for 2018
Viper 640 Pacific Coast Championships – Cabrillo Beach YC. This years Pacific Coast Championship did not disappoint. Conditions where perfect with the typical summer Southern California sea breeze. The fleet sailed in a variety of conditions from 10 to 18 kts. Racing was held outside in the ocean on Day One and inside the breakwater […]
Brad Boston’s Jackpot wins the 2018 Viper 640 Great Lakes Championship
Reported by Cole Constantineau and translated into Canadian (ok, English) by Brian Johansen. Sailing out of the idyllic Sarnia Yacht Club over two days, Brad Boston, with Mike Vigrass and Cole Constantineau won the 2018 Viper 640 Great Lake Championship. The next three spots on the leaderboard were hard fought, with a 3-point spread from […]
Tom Loutrel’s Choppy Seas Wins 2018 Marblehead NOOD
July 28-29, 2018 Tom Loutrel, sailing with Hunter Stunzi and Jeff Frohock reclaimed this year’s Marblehead NOOD title, besting the 13-boat fleet by 8 points. Cole Constantineau, Robin Weatherill, and Niels Warburton ended the weekend in 2nd place, with Moise Solomon sailing with some Nickersons not named Dave (Dan and Sarah Nickerson Enright) rounding out […]
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 […]
