Latest Viper 640 Class News


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. […]

Viper NAs Champs Marcus and Andrew Eagan and Jackson Benvenutti win 2018 Viper Winter Cup

The 2018 Viper 640 Winter Cup was moved from its traditional home in Miami to the Sarasota Sailing Squadron this March 16-18 and was sailed as part of the SSS’s One-design Midwinter Regatta. 24 Vipers showed up for this multi-class event…the wind…not so much. On each of the three mornings, the easterly breeze steadily faded […]

Mike Pentecost Overall Winner of the 2018 Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta

Mike Pentecost of Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA, had another big regatta over the March 16-18 weekend ending up on top of the 16-boat Viper division and then being named the overall winner of the regatta. Mike shares his thoughts on the San Diego NOOD with his fellow Viperers: San Diego is a super fun venue […]

Sailing World – Inside the Classes features Viper 640

A great article (below) and video produced during the 2018 Helly Hansen San Diego NOOD featuring and interview with PNW Viperer Garrett Johns. SAILING WORLD WROTE: Sailing World’s Boat of the Year judges nailed it back in 1997 when they pegged Brian Bennett’s Viper 640 as the Boat of the Year. At a time when […]

Max Albert and Pontchartrain YC win first GYA Capdevielle regatta sailed in Viper 640s

Sailed out of New Orleans Yacht Club, the first Capdevielle sailed in Viper 640s was held March 16-18, the Mardi Gras Regatta. The team from across lake and Pontchartrain Yacht Club, skippered by Max Albert, dominated the eight-boat regatta with a “picket fence” score of five firsts in five races. In second was Gulfport Yacht […]

Viper 640 World Champion Nick Jerwood’s take on the Worlds and the Viper 640

Snake Bytes asked Nick Jerwood for his download on the Schweppes Viper 640 World Championship The boat we sailed was purchased new by Brian DeVries in September ‘17 and it was his plan to bring together a team to compete in the worlds and my good fortune that he asked me to be on that […]

Words from a Prez – Graeme Monkhouse – Regional President, Australia

What a great time to be a Viper sailor in Perth. Having just hosted the 2018 World Championships we are left with a 20 boat Western Australian fleet and memories of a Regatta that will be hard to beat. The sailing was sensational. After gentle conditions in the two day warm-up regatta, Monday turned out […]