Latest Viper 640 Class News

If you’re new to the class, you may not realize that there are Viperers in Missouri.  Sailing in the “Show Me State” means you need to be a bit flashy to get the attention of Cardinals fans and others who don’t see much water, which is where Joan Hall comes in.  Joan was a Viper […]

Mark Griffiths began importing the Viper 640 to the east coast of Australia last September. Recently Mark and his crew completed their first two regattas in their Viper, “Circus School”: The Geelong Race Week and last weekend, the State titles in New South Wales. They were racing against some of the country’s hottest sportsboats using the […]

I trekked out to Long Beach for the second straight year for SCYA Midwinters.  Does two years make a habit?  Maybe, and as SCYA Midwinters shows, not all habits are bad.  The forecast was “terrible”, so naturally that meant Santa Ana winds in the morning caused brief Race Committee panic, and a nervous Timbo wondering […]

Can you tell that Viper season is nearly upon us?  Hopefully the flurry of activity in the class forums and on the front page of the website in the past week has given some hint.  The season always starts first in Arizona and Southern California, and you can’t talk about Viper sailing in those places […]

The Great Lakes Viper fleet is growing — we know the “Great Lakes” is an obscenely large geographic region with sizable travel distances, but it’s also home to some of the best sailing venues in North America: Kingston, Detroit, Sarnia, and now, Chicago.  Two Vipers entered The Windy City this winter: the legendary Viper 55 […]

The Arizona Yacht Club Birthday Regatta held January 18 – 20 saw 10 Vipers on the line with more than half of the boats from out of state.  The road warrior award clearly went to Rafe Beswick, who towed his boat more than 1500 miles from Olympia, Washington to get away from the gloomy weather […]

With the holidays here, we decided to bring back the Better Know a Viperer series as a present to everyone in the class and to give folks something to read if they’re tired of watching Christmas specials and college football bowl games.  The only natural choice to break this spell was Viper 640 supercrew Lee […]

Alamitos Bay Yacht Club is host to one of the largest annual small boat regattas on the West Coast, the annual Turkey Day Regatta.   I remember doing this regatta as a youth in Lasers in freezing cold weather in 30kts of breeze and knew the conditions would dictate the event.  Local Viper rep Tim Carter […]