On November 15, 16 and 17, Hampton Yacht Club hosted the Fall Fling one design regatta. This annual regatta included 505s, Sonars, J 70s, Viper 640s, 420s and Albacores. HYC has expressed great interest in developing a Viper fleet so with the help of RONDAR and reps Dan Tucker and Tyler Moore, factory boats were […]
HOUSTON, Texas. (October 12): The final day of the Viper 640 North Americans hoped to clear out a cluster at the top of the leaderboard, but forecasted thunderstorms meant that the fleet would be fortunate to get in two races in a 7-10 knot SSE breeze. Jason Carroll with his team of Chad Corning and […]
HOUSTON, Texas. (October 10): With a better forecast than yesterday, Viperers kicked it into gear for Day Two of the 2013 Viper North Americans in Houston. The forecast called for a building sea breeze and cooler temperatures, and sure enough, by the end of the day Vipers were planing downwind at 14 knots in 18 […]
HOUSTON, Texas. (October 9): Thanks to all the hard work over the past couple of months, the newest location of the North Americans, Houston, has gotten underway. A total of 29 boats made the trip to the Republic of Texas, with boats representing 14 different states. Racing began today and will conclude on Saturday, October […]
David Chapman who has been sailing Fer De Lance with Glyn Locke and Ian Nicholson, showed the match racing circuit a bit of Viper talent when he won the Chicago Match Race Center Invitation A event last week. He had to snake past the #1 ranked World Match Racing Circuit skipper and tactician along the […]
Vicious Panda wins CORK and Great Lakes Championship. Rum Theory wins Canadian Championship (2nd in regatta and top Canadian Boat) Argentinean sailor wins the online version of the CORK- EFG Pan American Series. Young Olympic hopeful from South Africa takes the lead in the EFG online series (and would like to come to Miami) All […]
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/
Easy to get sailing and up to speed, yet all the one design competition you can handle.
