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/
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Easy to get sailing and up to speed, yet all the one design competition you can handle.
