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Chris Parker, Jeff Grange and Mike Kuhney top Viper fleet in Santa Barbara
Chris Parker, Jeff Grange and Mike Kuhney top Viper fleet in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Skiff Festival Santa Barbara Yacht Club May 14-15 Host club’s Chris Parker with event chair Jeff Grange and Mike Kuhney winning three of five races followed in second by Viper Governor and Alamitos Bay YC member Tim Carter sailing with…
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Lee Shuckerow at top of Podium at Bayview One-Design Regatta
Lee Shuckerow at top of Podium at Bayview One-Design Regatta Bayview One-Design Regatta Bayview Yacht Club June 3-5 The Bayview ODR is a major mid-west regatta with over 225 boats sailing on Detroit’s Lake St. Clair in 16 divisions. Within the 7-boat Viper fleet, it was Lee Shuckerow, Eric Vigrass, and Mike Weber sailing Jackpot…
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John Dane, Dave Bolyard, and Thomas Duffy win Viper 640 Gulf Coast Championship during the GYA Opening Regatta
May 20-21, Fairhope Yacht Club, Fairhope, AL It was the first major Viper regatta since the Gulf Yachting Association selected the Viper as its new Capdevielle interclub boat (as of 2018)…and what a regatta it was. The details will follow, but the topline report is that John Dane, former Olympic Star sailor and relatively new…
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Ghost Panda Wins 2016 Viper 640 Atlantic Coast Championship at Charleston Race Week
Team Ghost Panda, with Peter Beardsley, his wife Rachel, Jay Rhame, and his fiancée Rachel Daugherty, handily won the 2016 Viper 640 Atlantic Coast Championship. The Championship was sailed as part of the Sperry Charleston Race Week from April 15-17. This is the first Atlantic Coast Championship win for the crew, which sails regularly out…
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DUSTIN JOHNSON, KENT MORROW, AND TREVOR DiMARCO WIN TULIP REGATTA
PNW Tulip Regatta April 2-3, 2016 The Northwest Viper Fleet converged on Anacortes, Washington for the Tulip Regatta, a contest far more spirited than the name implies. In addition to fervent competition between Vipers, Saturday’s racing saw a battle between a prevailing southeasterly breeze and a punchy thermal from the west. Sunday saw sunny skies…
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ALEX STEELE WINS 2015 HELLY HANSEN SAN DIEGO NOOD REGATTA
2016 San Diego NOODs Written by Tim Carter and Steve Bloemeke March 18-20, 2016 Tim: So, Steve. We need crew for San Diego NOODs. Know anyone? Steve: Yep. Got the perfect person in mind. Let me reach out to her husband, Craig Leweck and get her mobile number. They live down there and it will…
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LAWRENCE CRISPIN SWEEPS MIAMI VIPER REGATTAS
March 14, 2016 Congratulations to Lawrence Crispin, Hector Cisnaros, and Luka Crispin for turning in a stunning sailing performance this past week in Miami. After convincingly winning the EFG Winter Cup (March 6-7), this trio from the UK’s Stone Sailing Club carried their momentum into Bacardi Miami Sailing Week. They dominated the 28-boat fleet with…
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Lawrence Crispin Wins 2016 EFG Winter Cup Regatta
So I’m sitting with my crew mates having just finished the EFG Winter Cup regatta and asked, “What should I write?” Simple, Peter replied, just say “It was windy!” High teens into low twenties and the Viper 640 fleet sailed six races over two days in Biscayne Bay. The fleet sailed out of the US…
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VIPER 640 CLASS ANNOUNCES ITS INAUGURAL INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA
February 24, 2016 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the design of the Viper 640 and the 10th anniversary of the relaunch of the Class Association. The Class is now a truly international class with Viper 640 fleets active in seven nations across three continents. The Class Association is celebrating these milestones by hosting the…
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Horowitz, Coleman, and Healy Win Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s Viper 640 Winter Circuit
Sarasota, FL February 7, 2016 Sailing weekends in December, January, and February, the Sarasota (FL) Sailing Squadron’s Winter Circuit has become a mainstay for east coast Viper sailors…and some from the west coast and Canada. Not only are there three weekends of racing, but this series gets everyone’s boats to Florida where they will stay…