Lets rumble…. Each year, East Fremantle Yacht Club holds the Rumble in the Reach for the Western Australian Sports Boat fleet. The “Reach”, or Blackwall Reach, is a narrowing of the Swan River, a gorge if you like, 1.2 km long and .33 km wide. It is affectionately known as the “Drainpipe” The prevailing southwesterly […]
Sunday, January 10, 2016 At its annual meeting of member club commodores, held at the Fairhope Yacht Club, the GYA Board of Directors voted to approve the association’s rules and regulations whereby the Viper 640 will replace the Flying Scot as the GYA’s Capdevielle boat starting in 2018. This is great news for the […]
Sarasota Sailing Squadron, Sarasota, FL The 2015-16 Sarasota Viper Winter Series kicked off on Friday December 11 with 15 of the 24 registered teams attending a full day clinic, hosted by North Sail’s Zeke Horowitz. Zeke took the teams through all aspects of rigging, tuning and tweaking the setup on a Viper. After a group […]
The Viper 640 fleet returns to Florida for the third annual Winter Series. Each year turnout in Sarasota has increased, and 2015-16 is no exception, with 28 teams already registered for the series, with more expected. The first circuit event December 12-13 is expected to have 24 teams on the starting line, including the first […]
Zeke Horowitz from North Sails One-Design will be on hand at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron on December 11 to conduct a “go fast” Viper 640 seminar. Zeke has been sailing Vipers these past few years and has proven very quickly that he understands the boats and how to make them go fast in any condition. […]
Albany is the yachting Mecca this weekend with the Clipper Cup yachts coming from the Southern Ocean and the Vipers coming from Perth, 400 kilometres to the north. Three vipers have been purchased by Albany sailors and are now sailing out of Princess Royal Yacht Club. Most of the Perth fleet are off to join […]
At the invitation of the Viper 640 Class Association and Rondar Raceboats, the current Commodore of the Gulf Yachting Association, George Goodall from Fort Walton Yacht Club, and Vice Commodore, Cathy Cromartie from Fairhope Yacht Club, traveled to Larchmont, NY and spent four days as part of the Viper 640 community. While they were there […]
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