Latest Viper 640 Class News

EFG Pan American Championship Qualification Series moves to Cowes

This week there are two further stages to the EFG Pan American Championships Qualification Series . Both are in the Solent UK. One is online and Sportboat sailors from around the world can participate. The other is on the water and starts on Saturday August 3rd.   For news and pictures, please go to https://www.viper640.org/efgpanam/

More Great Pictures From Newport

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Ched’s Perspective! Sail trim and tactics from the maestro at Newport

After sailing the last two Viper regattas as crew I decided it would be fun to steer at the Bacardi Newport Regatta and get a different perspective. Kay and Karen were kind enough to offer up their Viper #98  and I quickly accepted. There were, as always, a bunch of things I learned over the weekend about […]

High Sierra Regatta – Pacific Coast Championships 2013

This year’s 2013 Pacific Coast Championships took place in one of the most remote and scenic venues on the west coast – Huntington Lake in the High Sierras. This year marked the 60th Anniversary for the High Sierra Regatta, hosted and run by Fresno Yacht Club volunteers. Footage from one of the Friday starts captured […]

Ontearing It Up

The Great Lakes Viper Fleet had our ‘Ontario Championships’ June 29-30 at the Sarnia Yacht Club. As always, Southern Lake Huron did not disappoint providing plenty of wind, and some of the best fresh water sailing conditions on the planet.  Viper sailors were treated to 2 days of very well run races (thank you Brad […]

EFG Pan American Viper 640 VIRTUAL Sport Boat Championships – Online!

The Viper 640 Class Association, EFG International and SailX.com announces a series of online regattas . The racing will be hosted by Sailx.com.  Participants will be racing against each other in real time in simulated Viper/skiffs. SailX is easy to use. The tactics and performance of the boats are very realistic. Sailx will improve your […]

Lake Garda Euro Cup – Snow in June

The European qualifier for the EFG Pan American Championship was completed on Lake Garda this weekend.  Pictures and news on the Pan American page here: https://www.viper640.org/efgpanam/ + more pictures from LBRW.

Long Beach Race Week 2013

Long Beach Race Week was the first regatta in the EFG Pan Am qualifying series.  A full recap with photos will appear here in a couple of days, but in the meantime, check out the brand new EFG Pan American Championship blog for updates. “After three days of racing, the top three boats were only […]

The Other CRW: Cal Race Week 2013

At the beginning of June, the West Coasts Vipers rallied for Cal Race Week in Marina Del Rey. Once again, the Vipers lead the charge of largest one design start with 11 boats on the line. New to the class, but definitely not new to sailing, rockstars Kevin Taugher, Mike Pentecost and Garrett Brown dominated […]

Better Know a Viperer: Paul Zinger

If you’ve been to the major east coast Viper regattas over the past year, you may have noticed a shadowy character chain smoking in the drysail area, doing his best to close down every regatta party, and trying to soak up every bit of Viper knowledge and trivia the fleet is willing to share.  That’d […]