Latest Viper 640 Class News


Danny Pletsch and Cardwell Potts win 2015 Viper 640 New England Championship

Noroton Yacht Club (Darien, CT) was the host to the 2015 Viper 640 New England Championship with racing scheduled for June 13-14. Sixteen Vipers were in attendance and sailed four challenging races on Saturday. Leading the pack after the first day was BLACKOUT PROPOSAL being sailed by LYC’s Danny Pletsch, Cardwell Potts, and Clay Bischoff. […]

Viper 640 Atlantic Coast Championship

This year’s ACCs will be sailed in Newport, RI, on June 27-28 — Registration Friday, June 26 — as part of Bacardi Newport Sailing Week 2015 sponsored by EFG. Regatta information   Registration  

Jason Carroll wins second Charleston Race Week

Jason Carroll, sailing with fellow Larchmont Yacht Club members John Baxter and Chad Corning, captured his second Viper 640 Charleston Race Week victory. With 15 Vipers sailing eight races over three days from Friday, April 17 – Sunday, April 19, it was Carroll’s regatta as soon as the second heat was in the books. Winning […]

Brad Boston, Lee Shuckerow and Nick Loundsbury Win EFG Viper 640 Pan American Championship

Viper veterans Brad Boston and Lee Shuckerow, joined by new teammate Nick Loundsbury, won a hard-fought Bacardi Miami Sailing Week and EFG Viper 640 Pan-American Championship.  The defending North American champs avenged last year’s one point loss, though it didn’t come easy, with the overall regatta leader changing three times among three different teams in […]

I Love Scorch. Scorchy scorch scorch.

Viper 640s Miami Scorch A Blustery Event MIAMI (March 3): There are a lot of reasons to come to South Florida to race Vipers in March.  The weather is usually great.  The competition is excellent.  But it’s not all about the racing around the buoys.  There’s also the race to the restaurant, known as the […]

Viper Action To Heat Up In Miami

Things are about to get hot in the Viper 640 class, with two Miami regattas in Miami this week, culminating in the EFG Bank Viper 640 Pan-American Championship held during BACARDI Miami Sailing Week, one of the Class’s major championships. The 30+ Vipers expected in attendance mark the Class’s largest participation of the six years […]

Three Podium Spots, Three Different Flags at the EFG Winter Cup

Miami is known as the gateway to Latin America.  For Viper sailors, it may also be the jumping off point for points east.  If you hailed from an island in the Atlantic Ocean, you probably did well at the 2015 EFG Winter Cup.  Bermudians Somers Kempe, Butch Agnew and Adam Barboza never won a race and […]

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Early Start for Viper 640 – 2015 Season

The Viper season kicks off in March with the EFG Barcardi Regatta, whilst UK sailors are still in the midst of cold weather. Miami offers warm sunshine and perfect sailing conditions for the 34 boats that have already entered! The four day International Regatta is preceded by three days of pure Viper racing. This year […]

Beardsley and Pletsch Win Sarasota Winter Circuit Title

Amidst snowstorms and freezing rain in the northeast U.S., 15 Viper teams made the trip south to sail in sunny conditions with green water all weekend. The Race Committee at Sarasota Sailing Squadron squeezed in 9 races in conditions that never reached more than 10 knots, with large shifts, managing the seemingly impossible as fleets […]

Viper 640 Stands Out At Gulf Yachting Association’s Annual Meeting

As reported in the recent Snake Bytes, a contingent representing the Viper 640 Class Association and Rondar Raceboats traveled to Biloxi, MS, the weekend of January 9-11 to present the Viper to the Gulf Yachting Association (GYA). The GYA is looking to replace their Association-sanctioned one-design, the Flying Scot, with a sport boat. Each GYA […]