Team COBRA, traveling the longest distance to the regatta, sailed the shortest distance around the racecourse to win the 2015 Pacific Coast Championship. Class Governor Tim Carter with Farr 40 bow woman Sammy Herrin drove 17 hours to Fern Ridge Reservoir outside Eugene, Oregon to meet up with Former Class President Peter Beardsley, who flew […]
Congratulations to Zeke Horowitz, Emmy Stuart, and Ian Coleman for winning the Viper 640 class in the 2015 Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound’s one-design championship sailed out of American Yacht Club, Rye, NY, August 1 – 2. Zeke’s JENNY had a score line of 2-3-1-2-1 to nip by two points perennial Viper powerhouses […]
Sailed over the weekends of July 11-12 and 18-19, 25 Vipers competed in all or parts of Larchmont Race Week. Clearly, the Vipers stood out from the traditional, full hull boats on the one-design circle (Etchells, Shields, IODs, and S Boats) as they skipped over the water as the breezed were light to moderate. After […]
GREAT LAKES REGION GATHERS AT THE NEPEAN ONE-DESIGN Submitted by Steve Chapman The Nepean One-design Regatta took place June 21-22 at the Nepean Sailing Club just outside of Ottawa where seven Vipers joined 80 other boats for this well organized fixture in the Great Lakes calendar. As always, great music, cold beer, and hot summer […]
Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club welcomed small one-design sailboats to the Gim Hobelman Regatta over the July 25-26 weekend. Divisions were open to Lasers, Vanguard 15’s, Viper 640’s and Rhodes 19’s. The weekend’s events included a party at the Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club’s clubhouse on Saturday evening. Happily, the Chicago Viper 640 Fleet will also hosted […]
UK TATTINGER REGATTA BUBBLED BRIGHTLY Reported by Paul Young We have just had the Tattinger Regatta at the Royal Solent, Yarmouth. This regatta was scheduled for the first time this year and is sponsored by Tatinger Champagne, who ensured that no one is thirsty, and had a turnout of around 170 boats ranging from old […]
INTRO TO YOUR NEWEST VIPER DEALER If you haven’t been keeping up with the Viper Class forums, you may not be familiar the newest Viper reps down in the South. Gulf Performance Sailing (GPS) grew out of the need to have solid Viper representation along the northern Gulf Coast. As the Gulf Yachting Association is […]
Tom Loutrel (Charleston, SC) crushed it at the 2015 Helly Hanson Marblehead NOOD regatta (July 24-25). With seven bullets and two seconds in the nine races sailed, Tom and his crew were unstoppable. This win follows on the heels of Loutrel’s recent victory in the 2015 Viper 640 Atlantic Coast Championship reported further down on […]
Reported by Governor Justin Scott So there we were, having dinner in a quaint Italian town, and a regatta broke out… Riva Del Garda: The Ora, Vino Rosso, The Falmouth Four, Ted the Marsupial and the first Viper European Championships Twenty three Vipers and K6s descended on the utterly charming town of Riva Del Garda […]
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