Latest Viper 640 Class News


Mike Hester Wins Arizona Yacht Club Birthday Regatta…but maybe NOT the Party!

January 15-17, 2016 Lake Pleasant, AZ By Thursday afternoon, the RV was set up awaiting the arrival of Team Cobra from SoCal (Tim Carter, Steve Bloemeke and Patricia) to join with Team Nectar Sled (Mike Hester, Sarah Hester and Scott Hoffman). With a few nectars under my belt, Team Cobra arrived and the party started. […]

Jay Rhame, Peter and Rachel Beardsley win Sarasota Viper Winter Series #2

Round Two of the Sarasota Viper Winter Series was sailed January 9-10 in very fun conditions with a great group of 21 crews. Saturday morning dawned with a touch of fog that burned off and gave way to steady 8-12 kts by the time the first race got under way. Justin Scott, sailing his new […]

Rumble in the Reach 2016

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 […]

Gulf Yachting Association Board Confirms Viper 640 Selection

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 […]

Breeze On in the Viper 640

Zeke Horowitz, Danny Pletsch, and Peter Beardsley on the Podium for the Sarasota Viper Winter Series #1

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 […]

Vipers Ready to Return to Sarasota

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 To Conduct Viper Clinic In Sarasota, FL, 12/11

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. […]

The Snake Charmer Albany Regatta

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 […]

Craig and Deb Wilusz Win Pensacola YC’s Jubilee Regatta

The Jubilee Regatta annually hosts Lightnings, Thistles, and Vipers.  The regatta is also timed with the Naval Aviation Blue Angel Airshow overhead while sailing.  Though this year found cloudy skies with light and shifty winds on Saturday. Read More